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The Buffalo killings are a dark moment that can also show us the way to hope.

Legislator, who lives next door to family, says it's a privilege to call the Island home.

Infants' needs and manufacturers' lobbying power has led to less accountability.

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North Hempstead issue highlights deeper problems within town government.

It's best to deny the shooters the attention and legitimacy they sought. 

Republicans were obsessed with fictional voter fraud long before Trump.

Some say the answer is more states' rights.  

Sustaining old gerrymanders to erase new ones doesn't make for fairness.

With each new variant, the period of protection keeps getting shorter.

It's the lack of guns that make these massacres possible.

The violence in Buffalo has left many feeling uneasy and unsafe.

The Internet age may have seen a resurgence of ideas but it is not the cause.

Raising vaccination rates is critical as the U.S. population continues to age.

Congress can't do much to affect the course of inflation in the short term.

Forty years after its resolution, censorship and intolerance rise again.

Add it to a list of extremist right-wing and racist and xenophobic crime scenes.