Opinion Columns
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Another revelation, another layer of griefSep 15, 2020 1:00 am - I learned a lot about how to die from my mother, and long before I was holding her hand as she drew her last breath. After nearly two decades as a nurse's aide, Mom beca...
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The campaign is at knife's edgeSep 15, 2020 1:00 am - The presidential campaign is at knife's edge. Both parties' campaigns assume that patterns of support will closely resemble those in 2016. And both are making surprising...
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Graduated tax gives regular working folks a rare breakSep 11, 2020 1:00 am - Even when things start to sound better, regular working folks can't seem to catch a break. For instance, according to the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics data, jo...
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A piece of cheesecake for 9/11Sep 11, 2020 1:00 am - My wife, Deborah, bought me a piece of cheesecake yesterday. The market she goes to sells individual pieces of cheesecake in clear plastic boxes. "Look," she said happil...
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The art of giving political speechesSep 10, 2020 1:00 am - I was talking to a friend not long ago who was pretty down on politics in all its forms. "I actually find real enjoyment in politics," I told him. He asked if I was nuts...
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Trump's invisible warSep 10, 2020 1:00 am - Did you hear the word "Obamacare" during the Republican convention? It was once President Donald Trump's worst enemy. Then it got more popular, as people who had not bee...
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Today and yesterdaySep 09, 2020 1:00 am - In matters of race and other social phenomena, there is a tendency to believe that what is seen today has always been. For Black people, the socioeconomic progress achie...
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America's most trusted 'referee'Sep 09, 2020 1:00 am - What do presidential candidates George H.W. Bush, Michael Dukakis, Bill Clinton, Bob Dole, Ross Perot, Al Gore, George W. Bush, John Kerry, Barack Obama, John McCain and...
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Biden's late, half-hearted position on violenceSep 08, 2020 1:00 am - In what The New York Times described as a "forceful rebuttal," Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden delivered a speech last week in which he said, "Ask yourself: ...
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A request: Keep a pandemic diarySep 08, 2020 1:00 am - Since April, I've been telling my students that their generation will be the ultimate storytellers of this pandemic, as COVID-19's legacy will surely endure for decades....