Opinion Columns
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Syndicated columnist Elwood Watson: A police interaction with a young, black girl with a happy endingFeb 08, 2023 12:00 am - Last month, the Yale School of Public Health held a ceremony to celebrate Bobbi Wilson, a 9-year-old Black kid from Caldwell, New Jersey, whose efforts to eradicate spot...
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What's more dangerous, a gang member or an activist?Feb 08, 2023 12:00 am - Julian Rubinstein and Terrance Roberts are an unlikely pair. Both grew up in Denver, but Rubinstein is a journalist and Roberts is an ex-gang-member-turned-activist who ...
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Syndicated columnist Marc Munroe Dion: Things have changed, but still ...Feb 07, 2023 12:00 am - I remember when cops on duty used to wear those bulgy-looking shoes that were, in fact, ordinary dress shoes. They wore them for ceremonial occasions, too, and they wore...
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Syndicated columnist Michael Barone: We don't need racial quotas to showcase America's diversityFeb 07, 2023 12:00 am - The ordinarily fluent and unperturbed Justice Elena Kagan seemed, judging from the transcript, to be sputtering a bit in the oral argument of the Supreme Court's case ch...
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Syndicated columnist Vernoique de Rugy: Inconsistency is the most consistent thing about politicsFeb 03, 2023 12:00 am - Since Grover Cleveland was president, no one has accused the average politician of being principled or even consistent. Year after year, Republicans claim to care about ...
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Guest columnist Raja Krishnamoorthi: Even in chaotic Congress, we can make progressFeb 02, 2023 12:00 am - After the spectacle of Kevin McCarthy requiring 15 ballots to secure his position as House speaker, are we doomed to two years of chaos and dysfunction? I share the conc...
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Syndicated columnist Jamie Stiehm: Blood on many Memphis hands: To be Black at a traffic stopFeb 02, 2023 12:00 am - A 21st-century policing pattern has emerged from Freddie Gray in Baltimore, George Floyd in Minneapolis and now the death of a young man, Tyre Nichols in Memphis, Tennes...
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Syndicated columnist Byron York: The Joe Biden-Hunter Biden scandal convergenceFeb 01, 2023 12:00 am - Republicans have long said the Hunter Biden laptop scandal is really a Joe Biden story. Now, it looks like the Joe Biden classified documents scandal is also a Hunter Bi...
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Syndicated columnist Elwood Watson: What the Tyre Nichols case tells us about racismFeb 01, 2023 12:00 am - The death of Black people at the hands of law enforcement has become so commonplace that it's easy to feel both outraged and psychologically numb. Over the past few deca...
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Guest columnist Eliot Clay: Clean, affordable, reliable energy is best for state's futureJan 30, 2023 10:00 pm - As a critical energy hub in the heartland, Illinois must have a reliable grid to ensure Americans and Prairie State residents have access to power all year, regardless o...