Opinion Columns
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Reasonable regulations needed to protect platform marketplaceJul 17, 2023 1:00 am - The platform economy is often hailed as opening new opportunities for people to chart their own courses and to determine where and how they will earn a living. If you ha...
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Foreign policy priority: Keep NATO alliance united and strongJul 16, 2023 1:00 am - Let's stipulate that a lot of very smart, very experienced, and very plugged-in people have made a number of predictions about the war in Ukraine that have turned out to...
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There are no moderates in the Republican raceJul 16, 2023 1:00 am - The race to beat former President Donald Trump for the Republican nomination for president is not, much as some of us might wish, a race to the middle, but a race to the...
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Time to end affirmative action for males in college admissions?Jul 14, 2023 1:00 am - Last month in the case Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed use of race as a factor in college admissions decisions. Isn't it time, t...
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Cocaine in the White HouseJul 14, 2023 1:00 am - In his memoir "Beautiful Things," Hunter Biden writes about the time he left his wallet in a rental car where he also left drug paraphernalia and white-powder residue. A...
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Columnist Jim Slusher: What would have happened at Northwestern without those news reports?Jul 13, 2023 1:00 am - By Jim Slusher jslusher@dailyherald.com It is indisputable that publicity complicates leaders' decision making, but that doesn't have to mean it leads to bad decisions. ...
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Supreme Court rejects liberal arguments based on liesJul 13, 2023 1:00 am - "This is not a normal court." So said President Joe Biden as the Supreme Court was handing down its rulings in big cases decided since its current term began last Octobe...
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When life is real as rentJul 12, 2023 1:00 am - You don't know anything about poor, working and middle-class America until you try to rent an apartment. I'm not talking about renting an apartment for yourself. I'm tal...
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Fighting the fentanyl epidemic requires both international and local actionJul 12, 2023 1:00 am - While our attention has been drawn lately to the Titan submersible and Canadian wildfires, a hidden disaster continues to plague Illinois and our nation. In 2021, more t...
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Israel has every right to challenge 'Murder, Inc.' in JeninJul 11, 2023 1:00 am - Webster's Dictionary defines "sophomoric" as "overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed." This fairly describes Israel's bitter critics who, as always, denounced Is...