Opinion Columns
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Maybe, eventually, history will get someone's attentionJan 28, 2020 12:00 am - There were two TVs on in the gym. The one in the front - where all the training goes on - showed two teams from somewhere else battling for a ball. The one in the back,...
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Fact checkers looking at only one sideJan 28, 2020 12:00 am - Google "fact-check Senate impeachment," and you can read about all the factual errors made by President Donald Trump's team of lawyers. What about those of the House imp...
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On 75th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation, a solemn reminderJan 27, 2020 12:00 am - Monday, Jan. 27, is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, memorializing the genocide of more than 6 million Jews, including 1.5 million children. This year's observan...
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Megxit, Trump and the generational divideJan 26, 2020 12:00 am - By Armstrong Williams Far too much ink has been spilled in describing the parallels between a resurgent British nationalism - a la Brexit - and the social currents under...
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Partisan purity is derailing our countryJan 26, 2020 12:00 am - We all have moments that stick with us forever, crystallizing our view of something we've long cared about. Here's one of mine, from several years ago: then Sen. Jim DeM...
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Republicans may not want it, but Americans are watchingJan 24, 2020 12:00 am - It is my habit, and my ethical obligation, to disclose a fact of my marriage when failing to do so could mislead you or diminish your trust in me. Circumstances and sub...
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As trial begins, the White House strikes backJan 24, 2020 12:00 am - "Trump has no defense at all," Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe, an influential figure among impeachment Democrats, tweeted recently. "The case is uncontested," Demo...
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Diversity and inclusion insanityJan 23, 2020 12:00 am - It's nearly impossible to have even a short conversation with a college administrator, politician or chief executive without the words diversity and inclusion dropping f...
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'Exit option' complicates picture for Illinois pension reformJan 23, 2020 12:00 am - Union opposition to proposed pension reforms have sparked a new wave of protests in France, a little more than a year after the onset of the "yellow vest" protest moveme...
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Warren, gender politics and the refusal to shake handsJan 22, 2020 12:00 am - What a coincidence. With less than three weeks to go until the Iowa caucuses, we suddenly learn about a meeting that took place a year ago, with only two people in the r...