Opinion Columns
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Trading morality for a good economyMay 28, 2019 1:00 am - American politics has become a case study of the type that college professors employ in Ethics 101. If the economy is good, does presidential corruption actually matter?...
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Dueling billboards don't improve abortion debateMay 28, 2019 1:00 am - Driving along Colorado's scenic byways, one might be distracted these days by a series of billboards promoting safe abortions or, depending upon one's route, alternative...
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Honoring and remembering our fallen heroes is reason for Memorial DayMay 27, 2019 1:00 am - Our nation has been blessed. Since our country's founding nearly two and half centuries ago, men and women of every generation have answered the call to serve. They left...
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The virtues of compromiseMay 26, 2019 1:00 am - Joe Biden is aiming his campaign pitch directly at the sensible center of American politics. "Compromise itself is not a dirty word," he asserted during his announcement...
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The key to representative democracy? Persuasion.May 26, 2019 1:00 am - I am lucky enough these days to be in regular touch with young people - students - who are interested in public service. I find hope in their quality, energy, and motiva...
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Attempt to punish China may give country its 'Sputnik moment'May 24, 2019 1:00 am - Many of us have been waiting for a new Sputnik moment, the point at which the challenge from China spurs America to get its act together. We may now be witnessing such a...
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God's will and the question of choiceMay 24, 2019 1:00 am - There are plenty of arguments going on about the recent severe abortion restrictions becoming law in states like Alabama and Missouri. My fellow pro-choice activists hav...
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Mueller changed everythingMay 23, 2019 1:00 am - From now on, the Trump-Russia affair - the investigation that dominated the first years of Donald Trump's presidency - will be divided into two parts: before and after t...
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Now's the time to watch state government - and to watch carefullyMay 23, 2019 1:00 am - Illinois lawmakers have been meeting and filing bills since early January, but the time you really need to be paying attention is now. And how you pay attention is also ...
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The missing option in American politicsMay 22, 2019 1:00 am - In a country that spans a continent, in a party that produced Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan, there is still no serious political challenge to the ideological supre...