Opinion Columns
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Opinion: 'Sex Is a Funny Word" is not appropriate for an elementary school classroom.Feb 09, 2022 12:00 am - The New York Times is concerned about censorship in American schools. "Book Ban Efforts Spread Across the U.S." reads Sunday's headline. "Parents, activists, school boar...
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Opinion column: Price controls always backfire. The market controls inflation.Feb 09, 2022 12:00 am - With some pundits advocating for price controls to fight inflation, it suddenly feels like the 1970s again. This type of overbearing intervention has never worked as mar...
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Returning to normalcy on school masksFeb 08, 2022 12:00 am - Are we returning to normalcy? The word "normalcy," as history buffs know, was used (but not invented) by our only journalist president, Warren G. Harding, to sum up his ...
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The making of a readerFeb 06, 2022 12:00 am - There's a voracious reader in all of us, I thought, but my youngest daughter was determined to prove me wrong. I took her to the eye doctor for one reason: so he could t...
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Biden drags Democrats downFeb 06, 2022 12:00 am - Most of us see President Joe Biden's falling job approval rating as a measure of his declining popularity. But for every candidate, Democrat or Republican, running for t...
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Why couldn't he just pick a Black woman?Feb 04, 2022 12:00 am - Why couldn't President Joe Biden have announced that he was going to pick the most qualified person to fill Stephen Breyer's seat on the Supreme Court - and then come ba...
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Three women lighting the supreme darknessFeb 03, 2022 12:00 am - The new liberal wing of the Supreme Court, if all goes according to White House plan, will be just three women justices defending the Democratic fort of democracy. Three...
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Illinois' teacher shortage crisis is dire, but we are not without solutionsFeb 03, 2022 12:00 am - Back in 2019, I traveled throughout Illinois to speak with superintendents about the growing teacher shortage in the state and how it was affecting students in their dis...
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The justice retiresFeb 02, 2022 12:00 am - It was the spring of 1979 when I got a call from a former professor offering me a job. I was fresh out of law school, clerking for Justice John Paul Stevens on the U.S. ...
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Voters oppose 'transformative' policies, want reform of dysfunctional bureaucraciesFeb 01, 2022 12:00 am - Do Americans really want transformative change? The evidence accumulates that they don't. That is a problem for the Joe Biden Democrats, whose policies are premised on t...