Opinion Columns
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Stetching to blame Trump for anti-Asian hateJun 10, 2021 1:00 am - The Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, released findings in March that showed a rise of 149% in reported anti-Asi...
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Fostering mindfulness and relationships in the gardenJun 08, 2021 1:00 am - When I was 8, my stepmother bought me a packet of seeds, bachelor's buttons, and we planted them in the backyard. We hadn't known each other long, and this is one of my ...
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Things are changing on ethics in Illinois, but we have to keep up the pressureJun 08, 2021 1:00 am - A "baby step," is what the Daily Herald editorial board succinctly and correctly called the ethics legislation passed in Springfield in the waning days of the Illinois G...
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Pandemic emphasizes role U.S. plays in charity around the worldJun 06, 2021 1:00 am - While the COVID-19 pandemic seems to be winding down in the United States, that's not the case when it comes to India, Brazil and other countries who are facing major ou...
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Of cats and menJun 06, 2021 1:00 am - "Ordinarily, the death of a cat means little to most men, a lot to fewer men, but to me, and that cat, it was exactly and no lie and sincerely like the death of my littl...
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Why 'Black Wall Street' mattersJun 04, 2021 1:00 am - Buried in the annals of our history is a little-known catastrophic event in America called the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. Only recently brought to light, President Bid...
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'Law and order' gambit doesn't work anymoreJun 04, 2021 1:00 am - It worked for Richard Nixon, who won the presidency in 1968, redrawing the electoral map. The once-solidly Democratic South, which supported John Kennedy and Lyndon John...
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Can the U.S. sustain the international order?Jun 03, 2021 1:00 am - We don't often think that how the U.S. conducts itself at home has much impact on how we face the world, but it does. You'd be amazed at how closely people in countries ...
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The key lesson to take from Fauci's emailsJun 03, 2021 1:00 am - There is a valuable lesson in Dr. Anthony Fauci's just-released emails, and it has nothing to do with COVID-19. It involves two particular aspects of written communicati...
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After George Floyd, what one year has broughtJun 02, 2021 1:00 am - By Byron York President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris met in the Oval Office last week with the family of George Floyd, the man who died a year ago in the ...