Opinion Columns
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The Rittenhouse case and the press's duty to report with depth on criminal casesNov 11, 2021 12:00 am - What you think of Kyle Rittenhouse may depend a lot on your politics. Almost as soon as he was arrested on charges of killing two people and wounding a third at a Kenos...
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State Democrats ready to step up for IllinoisNov 10, 2021 12:00 am - There's no doubt about it: though we've made progress in our state and our country, there's much more we can do to meet the challenges Illinoisans face every day. With t...
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It may be too late for Biden to save his presidencyNov 10, 2021 12:00 am - What should he do? He is President Joe Biden. The answer, at a minimum, is that more of the same just won't do. Biden's presidency, to date, has been a failure. The real...
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Only U.S. is in position to conduct effective global response to ChinaNov 09, 2021 12:00 am - When I was at National Defense University a dozen years ago, our second-semester seminars included foreign travel and it was striking that the American military officers...
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Be the helper you need to see in the worldNov 09, 2021 12:00 am - The holiday season is identified as one of gratitude, joy and generosity. But all of that cheer can be hard to stomach when coping with compounding grief and stress, and...
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Budget controls, consolidations can improve college affordabilityNov 08, 2021 12:00 am - Many people believe America's higher education model is broken. They point, with justification, to the high cost of tuition, the resulting large loan balances students g...
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How Democrats lost in Virginia - and may lose again in 2022Nov 07, 2021 1:00 am - When you tell people that something they see right before them does not exist, you lose their vote. That's what Virginia Democrat Terry McAuliffe did as he campaigned fo...
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Extremism, nostalgia, sports - the dwindling acts of faith in AmericaNov 07, 2021 1:00 am - Some habits are hard to break. Smoking. Drinking. Drugs. Some habits, once broken, are hard to pick up again. Voting. Going to church on Sunday. Reading a daily newspape...
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Note to Dems: It's not 2020 anymoreNov 05, 2021 1:00 am - There's been a lot of attention paid to President Joe Biden's falling job approval rating. And it is indeed going down, down, down. But along with confidence in the pres...
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Sen. Sinema: The outsider is inNov 04, 2021 1:00 am - I spied a woman in a purple and silver wig, walking around the Senate floor with astronaut Mark Kelly, who was newly sworn in as a Democratic senator from Arizona. Bewil...