Columns
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Why no politician can ‘fix’ prices (and why that’s OK)May 18, 2024 10:04 am - Prices are threads stitching together the fabric of our economy. They guide countless producers, here and abroad, to meet the most urgent demands of countless consumers. ...
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On Middle East, slogans mean nothing without understanding historyMay 18, 2024 10:02 am - After a year as a professor at Columbia University, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton probably knows what she's talking about when she says young people “don't kn...
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As local players have shown, the road to MLB isn’t easyMay 17, 2024 6:00 am - Local players continue to make Major League Baseball rosters, but it hasn’t been easy.
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Trump faces troubles, but Biden campaign is dead in the waterMay 16, 2024 8:54 pm - On Nov. 5, 2023, the New York Times published a story headlined, "Trump Leads in 5 Critical States as Voters Blast Biden, Times/Siena Poll Finds." Focusing on the states ...
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What voters don’t know … yetMay 16, 2024 6:15 pm - The problem with early polls is just that. They are taken early, and they are a snapshot of what voters know and think at the time they are taken. Which may be wrong. Bec...
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Silvy: Here’s another reason to get excited about the Bears. The schedule favors themMay 16, 2024 6:00 am - So many activities. Caleb Williams and Rome Odunze are first-round draft brothers and the Bears are leaning into it. Just keep the footballs off the drum set. I say it an...
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No respect? That’s the carp for youMay 16, 2024 6:00 am - You set the hook and begin to reel. Whatever is on the other end of your line must be a monster, because it is fighting so hard. You win the battle and bring the fish to...
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Just among us friends, some words about news principlesMay 15, 2024 8:00 pm - You might think it goes without saying, but just in case it doesn’t, let me say it. The way David Pecker and Michael Cohen describe efforts to use the National Enquirer t...
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American gold: At age 100, Lt. Benjamin inspires stillMay 15, 2024 7:47 pm - If 100 can be said to be the new 70, Lt. Alfred D. Benjamin of the Army Air Corps' 384th Bomb Group has to be the expression's poster boy. Ramrod-straight and sharp as th...
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Protest much? An academic reckoning is overdueMay 15, 2024 7:33 pm - WASHINGTON — The Columbia University Apartheid Divest coalition issued five demands: that Columbia divest assets that benefit from “Israeli apartheid, genocide and occupa...