Opinion Columns
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Jul 21, 2025 4:00 am - Guest columnist Joe Tedino: Citizens Climate Lobby volunteers from Illinois will meet with Congress members this week to advocate for policies supporting affordable, reliable clean electricity generation and transmission.
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Will K-12 students be disadvantaged by DC layoffs? Of course notJul 20, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders:
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NYC Democratic candidate mirrors Trump's campaign strategyJul 20, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Keith Raffel: Donald Trump's post-election revenge tour: starving enemies of security, ransacking the free press, and weaponizing lawsuits to "make their lives miserable.
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Depravity Denial: On sexual violence, progressives make an Israel exceptionJul 18, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Jeff Robbins: If the mass slaughter of Israelis dancing or in their beds wasn't enough to penetrate the moral conscience of self-identifying progressives, and it wasn't, the earnestly credulous among us might have imagined that the barbaric sexual violence perpetrated against Israeli females might have moved those who claimed, you know, to support women. But no.
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Message, not money, is Democrats’ problemJul 18, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich:
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Protecting Medicaid: A lifeline for many IllinoisansJul 18, 2025 4:00 am - Guest columnist Anna Moeller: President Trump's budget bill will severely cut Medicaid, risking coverage for 330,000 state residents and closure of rural hospitals.
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Looking sensibly at the State Department cutsJul 17, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Byron York: According to State Department documents, the total number of department employees has grown significantly over the years. After the addition of 22,874 employees, can a cut of 1,350 be “devastating"?
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A lesson on what journalism really does in a democracyJul 17, 2025 4:00 am - Columnist Jim Slusher: If you think that the lesson of Sage Gilliland’s exposé at Prospect High School is that good journalism helps bend that famous “arc of the moral universe” toward justice, I have something a little different to suggest.
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Gavin Newsom as the Democrats' nominee in 2028? What's not to like?Jul 16, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders: Gavin Newsom has White House ambitions, but his policies and French Laundry scandal make him unelectable nationally. Republicans will rejoice if he’s the Democratic nominee.
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The gender gap grows wider and widerJul 16, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Michael Barone: