Opinion Columns
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Columbia strikes deal with Trump. Will rest of higher education follow?Jul 31, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders:
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Are ex-presidents a help or a hindrance?Jul 31, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Michael Barone: The number of living ex-presidents has historically fluctuated during times of national crisis. Recent partisan divides between presidents have eroded norms of comity and respect between predecessors and successors.
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Don’t let innovation be a casualty of policyJul 30, 2025 4:00 am - Guest columnist Mark Denzler: The EPIC Act aims to correct an imbalance in drug development that favors complex biologics over convenient, affordable pill-based treatments
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As clock ticks, plenty of fodder for Social Security hearingJul 29, 2025 4:00 am - Guest columnist Keith Peterson: With Social Security Trust Fund projected to run dry in 8 years, Senators Cassidy and Kaine have proposed creating a $1.5T sovereign wealth fund to maintain benefits, but questions remain about feasibility and potential market distortion.
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Trump's attack on President ObamaJul 29, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich: It's not just Trump being Trump. We — and by “we” I mean both the public and the media — have gotten so used to Trump repeating outrageous lies that we tend to dismiss them out of hand. But this is much, much worse.
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Superman, not MAGA, stands for the American WayJul 27, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Keith Raffel: Donald Trump's post-election revenge tour: starving enemies of security, ransacking the free press, and weaponizing lawsuits to "make their lives miserable.
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Trump’s Fed battle a matter of fiscal — not just political — controlJul 25, 2025 3:33 pm - Syndicated columnist Veronique de Rugy:
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Illinois Healthcare on the Brink: Why We Must Fight the Federal Medicaid CutsJul 24, 2025 4:15 pm - The "Big Beautiful Bill," enacted by Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump, includes devastating funding cuts to healthcare in Illinois. The unprecedente...
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The Kiss-Cam ControversyJul 24, 2025 4:06 pm - Until last week, most of us had never heard of the data company Astronomer or its then CEO, Andy Byron. That was before he attended a Coldplay concert in Massachusetts on Wednesday with a woman later identified as the head of human resources at the company.
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Empire falls: Trump revs up the reign of terror, and it’s workingJul 23, 2025 6:20 pm - Syndicated columnist Jeff Robbins: