Opinion Columns
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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...
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Succor, sting: The role of 'them pictures' in engaging opinionNov 04, 2021 1:00 am - The political cartoon is a newspaper feature with a rich history and a shaky future. In the 1870s, Thomas Nast built a career around caricatures of William M. Tweed, the...
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Fighting illiberalism in higher educationNov 02, 2021 1:00 am - I consider my children to be extraordinarily lucky to be born and live in the United States. When I moved here from France in 1999, I believed that, while far from perfe...
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Investigate women's claims, but don't simply assume all are trueNov 02, 2021 1:00 am - "Billionaire Being Investigated for Rape ..." I plead guilty. If I didn't know better, I would just assume that the billionaire being investigated must be guilty. I migh...
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Fighting illiberalism in higher educationNov 02, 2021 1:00 am - I consider my children to be extraordinarily lucky to be born and live in the United States. When I moved here from France in 1999, I believed that, while far from perfe...
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Pulling back the curtain: How we tried to define objectivityNov 01, 2021 5:30 am - How do we define objectivity? We journalists have liked to say, if thinking only quickly about it, that we're objective. And we certainly have been told that we should b...
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Why remap Illinois when the redrawn map is even worse?Oct 31, 2021 1:00 am - By Sheldon H. Jacobson Guest columnist The Illinois remapping committee posted a blatantly gerrymandered Illinois congressional map on Oct. 15. Our research gr...
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A second look led to greater understandingOct 31, 2021 1:00 am - As a teenager, I frequently walked to St. Stephen Cemetery after school to sit by my mom's headstone. She died in a car accident when I was seven, and I didn't confront ...
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Note to Biden: Love the Senate lessOct 29, 2021 1:00 am - Two senators should not be pushing a president around on a signature package - legacy legislation called Build Back Better - as time ticks by. It does not play well. It ...