Opinion Columns
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Too much risk aversion is too riskyApr 06, 2021 1:00 am - "This is not politics," President Joe Biden said last week. "Reinstate the mandate if you let it down." Give him credit for consistency: When Gov. Greg Abbott ended Texa...
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A doctor's perspective: Diet hazards lurk for students as they return to in-person schoolingApr 06, 2021 1:00 am - Gov. JB Pritzker has announced plans to expand access to food assistance for 200,000 more Illinois schoolchildren through the Pandemic Electronic Benefits Transfer progr...
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Behind the Curtain: How the Daily Herald covers courthouse newsApr 05, 2021 5:00 am - Newspapers as a matter of course cover the courts, both criminal and civil. But we tend to handle them in different ways. Felony criminal charges are derived from a coll...
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Estrich: The anti-vaxxers do not just hurt themselvesApr 04, 2021 1:00 am - By Susan Estrich If you're looking for a vaccine, I can offer one piece of practical advice: Go red. If you live in a blue state, look for the red counties. Or get in y...
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York: Biden's delusion of becoming FDRApr 04, 2021 1:00 am - In early March, President Joe Biden met with a group of seven historians in the East Room of the White House. One topic of conversation: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and th...
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Is populism going to fritter away over time as George W. Bush predicts?Mar 31, 2021 1:00 am - By Neil Patel Last week, former President George W. Bush said he's not worried about the current moment in American politics because "these populist movements begin to f...
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COVID-19 Vaccine: Part IIMar 30, 2021 1:00 am - Hello, it's me again, your freshly vaccinated columnist, here to tell you about Dose No. 2. It's been 28 hours since I got my second jab of the Moderna vaccine, and I ad...
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Transparency, accountability needed in drawing of legislative boundariesMar 29, 2021 1:00 am - EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is an edited excerpt of testimony Madeleine Doubek, executive director for CHANGE Illinois, gave before the Illinois Senate Subcommittee on ...
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The GOP's science problemMar 28, 2021 1:00 am - Two stories I've been thinking about make clear that Republicans have problems Donald Trump's departure has not begun to solve. The problems are not with the Democrats. ...
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Can the Biden administration stop China?Mar 28, 2021 1:00 am - The acrid atmosphere last week at the Captain Cook Hotel in Anchorage, Alaska, with its vivid murals of the 18th-century British seafarer James Cook's discoveries throug...