Opinion Columns
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Trump's attack on President ObamaJul 29, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich: It's not just Trump being Trump. We — and by “we” I mean both the public and the media — have gotten so used to Trump repeating outrageous lies that we tend to dismiss them out of hand. But this is much, much worse.
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Superman, not MAGA, stands for the American WayJul 27, 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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Trump’s Fed battle a matter of fiscal — not just political — controlJul 25, 2025 3:33 pm - Syndicated columnist Veronique de Rugy:
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Illinois Healthcare on the Brink: Why We Must Fight the Federal Medicaid CutsJul 24, 2025 4:15 pm - The "Big Beautiful Bill," enacted by Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump, includes devastating funding cuts to healthcare in Illinois. The unprecedente...
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The Kiss-Cam ControversyJul 24, 2025 4:06 pm - Until last week, most of us had never heard of the data company Astronomer or its then CEO, Andy Byron. That was before he attended a Coldplay concert in Massachusetts on Wednesday with a woman later identified as the head of human resources at the company.
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Empire falls: Trump revs up the reign of terror, and it’s workingJul 23, 2025 6:20 pm - Syndicated columnist Jeff Robbins:
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Technology points up importance of ethicsJul 23, 2025 4:21 pm - One of my favorite journalism war stories dates back more than two decades but grows more relevant every day.
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Higher Education in Trouble: Political RepercussionsJul 23, 2025 4:13 pm - Nine months after the 2024 election, we've been graced with definitive dissections of the electorate and how it has changed since that escalator ride 10 years and one month ago.
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Team Trump Has Smart Take on Cutting Spending -- No Such Thing as Too SmallJul 22, 2025 5:34 pm - One of the things Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought likes about working for President Donald Trump is that there's no item that's "too small" to rate the president's attention.
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‘Noah’: A Riveting Production of the Biblical StoryJul 22, 2025 5:23 pm - My church recently celebrated our pastor's 75th birthday with a trip to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to view the musical "Noah," produced by Sight & Sound Theatres.