Opinion Columns
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'Golden boy' will restore AG to its original roleJan 12, 2021 12:00 am - Amid Wednesday's riots, President-elect Joe Biden's selection of Judge Merrick Garland as attorney general was not the front-page story it otherwise would have been. In ...
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Growing hybrid politicsJan 10, 2021 12:00 am - The 117th Congress has convened. Let's raise a toast to this newly hatched deliberative body and bid a fond farewell to the 116th, the least productive session in Congre...
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How to start a civil warJan 10, 2021 12:00 am - One thing the right always had claim to was the belief that - unlike Black Lives Matter and social justice protests - Tea Party and later MAGA rallies were peaceful, if ...
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Trump cost his party the Senate and the country even moreJan 08, 2021 12:00 am - What do you say of a man who openly seeks to subvert the Constitution and incites his supporters to take over the Capitol of the United States? He's not a president. He ...
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The 'Soulcraft' we need from lawmakers in House, SenateJan 08, 2021 12:00 am - In 1983, the conservative writer George Will wrote a slim volume entitled "Statecraft as Soulcraft" in which he argued that he did not see a problem of "big" government ...
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Candor: A politician's secret, unused weaponJan 05, 2021 12:00 am - Let me be blunt, please: Most of us ink-stained wretches in the political press corps are complete suckers for candor from politicians when speaking about themselves. Ca...
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Libraries have adapted to challenges of pandemicJan 05, 2021 12:00 am - As an executive director and CEO of one of the largest public libraries in Illinois, serving almost 150,000 people, the pandemic of 2020 has brought many new challenges ...
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What a president-elect must deal withJan 03, 2021 12:00 am - Joe Biden won't become President of the United States for a few weeks yet, but it's fair to say he's already feeling the pressures of the office. I think being president...
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Remaining confident in the face of great personal lossesJan 03, 2021 12:00 am - As the dawn of a new year approaches, I suspect that most of us will be glad to put 2020 in our rear view mirrors. I know I will. What began with an absurd television pr...
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We are not helplessJan 01, 2021 12:00 am - This is a tightrope column, the kind you'd rather not write, about an event you don't feel you can ignore. You tread carefully, but you want people to pay attention as y...