Opinion Columns
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'Defund the police' and the damage doneNov 18, 2020 12:00 am - Remember the debate over the meaning of the phrase "defund the police"? Repeated over and over on the progressive left, it seemed pretty clear - it meant that cities sho...
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What you can do to help small businesses surviveNov 18, 2020 12:00 am - It's easy to forget, but small-business optimism was historically strong heading into 2020. COVID-19, of course, changed things. Social distancing meant retailers and r...
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Epstein case still used to smear AcostaNov 17, 2020 12:00 am - Before he was found dead in a New York jail cell in what a coroner described as a suicide, Jeffrey Epstein was a super-rich serial sex abuser with impeccable political c...
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How do we save the lives of the Illinoisans who save others?Nov 16, 2020 12:00 am - First responders, the people we count on in an emergency, experience much higher rates of mental health crises. Tragically, 130 firefighter-paramedics across the country...
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Semifinal thoughts on Election 2020Nov 15, 2020 12:00 am - Joe Biden won the White House, we are reminded almost daily, on his third try, having run unsuccessfully in both 1988 and 2008. It's funny; I can't recall, having covere...
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This Thanksgiving, choose loveNov 15, 2020 12:00 am - Thanksgiving is my favorite day of the year. It's a holiday with none of the pressures of Christmas. I cook a lot of food and give a lot of hugs. Nothing makes me happie...
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It may not change anything, but Trump should win this suitNov 13, 2020 12:00 am - In its effort to challenge vote counts in key states, the Trump campaign has filed lots of lawsuits that have little chance of winning. But there is one suit that it sho...
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A country where people are afraid to tell pollsters what they thinkNov 13, 2020 12:00 am - "I like a good contrarian argument as much as the next guy," tweets mild-mannered RealClearPolitics senior elections analyst Sean Trende, "but there's really no getting ...
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The Blue Wave that wasn'tNov 11, 2020 12:00 am - As a product of 1980s Democratic politics, I rarely believe that the Democrat was going to win. Four years ago, I canceled my Tuesday class. Traffic, I said, as I raced ...
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Should Blacks support destruction of charter schools?Nov 11, 2020 12:00 am - The academic achievement gap between Black and white students has proved resistant to most educational policy changes. Some say that educational expenditures explain the...