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Robert David Sullivan is the production editor at America magazine.
A mourner pats the hearse holding the casket of Freddie Gray outside New Shiloh Baptist Church in West Baltimore on April 27. (CNS photo/Olivia Obineme, Catholic Review)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Don’t hold your breath waiting for Freddie’s Law.
Death penalty opponents stood in front of the U.S. District Court in Boston on Monday.
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
It's offensive to say Bostonians oppose the death penalty because it is not cruel enough.
According to Gallup surveys, the belief that a gun makes a home safer has soared since the beginning of the century.
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Majority say that protecting gun rights is more important than controlling gun ownership.
Newt Gingrich is calling for more government spending on medical research, but will he stick up for heroic fruit flies?
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Newt Gingrich calls for a doubling of the budget for the National Institutes of Health.
Makeshift Memorial for marathon bombing victims at Copley Square, Boston, April 30, 2013.
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Jurors must not use the defendant’s ethnicity or religious beliefs against him.
States shaded green get most of their revenue from individual and business income taxes. States shaded yellow get a majority of revenue from sales taxes.
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Soak the rich, the sinful, the spendthrifts or the tourists
Keeping welfare recipients away from nail salons (a quintessential neighborhood-based small business) does nothing to foster independence.
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Keeping welfare recipients away from nail salons does nothing to foster independence.
Because the Earned Income Tax Credit benefits only wage earners who file taxes, it does not carry the stigma of assistance programs such as food stamps (Image from irs.gov.)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Taxpayers should shift anger from person using food stamps at Walmart to Walmart itself
Hillary Clinton is going to meet some resistance to giving the Democrats another four years in the White House, but the polarized electorate is her friend. (Image from HillaryClinton.com.)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Eight years of a Democratic White House is a disadvantage, but not necessarily a fatal one
New York's Houston Street thrives because of immigration; native-born Americans are more likely to move to the Texas city of the same name. (Image from Jewish Women's Archive/jwa.org)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
New Census Bureau data reveal where people are moving—and why.