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Opinion: Pete Rose’s death likely to cause baseball to re-examine its policy on the game’s all-time hits leader
It seems almost quaint – now – that Pete Rose was banned from baseball for betting on his sport.

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Opinion: Like it or not, these two flawed candidates represent who we are
Among the questions I am most often asked by people who don't like the two presidential candidates: "How did we get to this point where I can't enthusiastically vote for either one?"

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Opinion: Donald Trump’s ‘normies’ could make the difference in the election
Last weekend, Donald Trump delivered what even he admitted was a "dark" speech.

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Opinion: The time has come for Israel to escalate in Iran
Long before he met with his overdue death last week, Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, offered a theological explanation for why Israel had come into existence.

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Opinion: Turns out, Trump was right about the criminal migrants
Vice President Kamala Harris' visit last Friday to a border region in Arizona takes political cynicism to a new low.

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Opinion: Beyond the Russian nuclear threat
President Vladimir Putin has outlined a much-trailed change to his nuclear doctrine, leading to predictable warnings of a radioactive Armageddon should the U.S. let Ukraine use American-made mid-range missiles against targets in Russia. That was, of course, his purpose.

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Opinion: The most important question Kamala Harris hasn’t answered
Not all the policy questions left unanswered by Kamala Harris' studiously vague presidential campaign are created equal.

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Opinion: Will Democrats’ September surprises work this time?
An October surprise is usually defined as the well-known (and more often left-wing) tactic of manufacturing or unloading a news story right before voting to surprise a rival without allowing them time sufficiently to respond or recover.

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Opinion: Why the next president — whether it’s Donald Trump or Kamala Harris — won’t have a mandate
Let's skip ahead to after the election. No matter who wins, the next president will declare that they have a "mandate" to do something. And they will be wrong.

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Opinion: How should Americans feel about Israel’s pager offensive? What’s most important is to pay attention
When the terrorist organization known as Hezbollah found its pagers exploding in its members' faces, presumably following Israeli manipulation of the group's supply chain, many Americans struggled with how to react.
