Opinion Columns
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Columnist Lee Hamilton: Congress shows negotiation and compromise can workSep 11, 2022 1:00 am - There are two especially striking aspects to the "Inflation Reduction Act," the sprawling climate-change/tax-reform/health-care legislation that just passed Congress and...
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Syndicated columnist Marc Munroe Dion: Old and quiet and staying that waySep 11, 2022 1:00 am - Thirty years ago, I interviewed a former factory owner who was pushing 80. I was working for a midsize daily newspaper and the story was that, every few years, he'd give...
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Guest columnist Ralph Martire: Much good will come from Inflation Reduction ActSep 09, 2022 1:00 am - The Inflation Reduction Act, which just passed Congress, is 700 hundred pages long, complex, and covers everything from climate change and health care, to corporate tax ...
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Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders: GOP squandering its chances on Big LieSep 09, 2022 1:00 am - Former President Donald Trump is not on the ballot as a Senate candidate this year. And yet Wednesday, Trump's mug was all over the website for the National Republican S...
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Syndicated columnist Jamie Stiehm: Our towns: Jan. 6 justice done -- and alive againSep 08, 2022 1:00 am - Justice came face-to-face with Thomas Webster, 56, a veteran New York cop who beat a D.C. cop with a Marine flagpole at the Jan. 6, 2021, riot. I witnessed the courtroom...
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Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich: Government should step in when parents need helpSep 08, 2022 1:00 am - Her grandmother was the one who suspected. Too long in the bathroom with the phone. She even missed making cupcakes with her sister and me. Something was wrong. Very, ve...
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Guest columnist Robert Berlin: Judges need discretion over bail for defendants in serious casesSep 07, 2022 1:00 am - The implementation of the new Safe-T-Act, which will eliminate cash bail on Jan. 1, 2023, has produced passionate arguments on both sides of the issue. As DuPage County ...
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Syndicated columnist Byron York: Harriet Hageman: How I beat Liz CheneySep 07, 2022 1:00 am - Harriet Hageman is the environmental lawyer who defeated incumbent Rep. Liz Cheney by a landslide in Wyoming's much-watched Republican House primary. Hageman, who will s...
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Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich: Elaha and fight for salvation from TalibanSep 06, 2022 1:00 am - Her name is Elaha. She is a medical student at Kabul University. On the video, widely shared on social media last week, she cries as she describes being forced to marry ...
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Syndicated columnist Bonnie Jean Feldkamp: Why relationships are best when we take time to work on ourselvesSep 06, 2022 1:00 am - We've all heard that relationships take work, and it's true. When love is at its best it is a verb. Our relationships have meaning when we value them enough to actively...