Opinion Columns
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Michael Gerson: Caring about the lives of prisoners benefits society as a wholeDec 21, 2018 12:00 am - Cleveland has written the latest chapter in the unfolding scandal of the American criminal justice system. A report by the U.S. Marshals Service details a series of fai...
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Cokie and Steve Roberts: Media is tougher on Trump because he fabricates more than his predecessors.Dec 21, 2018 12:00 am - "The man doesn't tell the truth." That simple, devastating statement describing Donald Trump was not made by a political foe. It was made by Michael Cohen, Trump's close...
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Georgie Anne Geyer says this is the season to spread the good wordDec 20, 2018 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - In these days before Christmas, one story keeps haunting me. It is a tale that seems so odd - in today's world of young people glued to iPhones, a leader st...
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Mueller's handling of cell phones that got agents fired leads to more questions about his investigation of TrumpDec 19, 2018 12:00 am - It's a little complicated, but it appears the Justice Department's inspector general, Michael Horowitz, has uncovered a serious problem relating to the anti-Trump texts ...
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Urban-rural chasm defines new Western political splitDec 18, 2018 12:00 am - For Steve Bannon, the way to create an enduring populist majority is to combine forces on the left and right. That's why he was in Italy earlier this year, where parties...
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Michael Gerson: We need a revival of humanismDec 18, 2018 12:00 am - By Michael Gerson FLORENCE - A tourist in Florentine museums is like a skipping stone above unfathomable depths. Here a Botticelli. There a Donatello. A single room at t...
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Insurers should be focus of latest workers' comp debateDec 17, 2018 12:00 am - In 2011, at the urging of the state's leading business organizations, bipartisan majorities of Illinois lawmakers approved a workers' compensation overhaul aimed at redu...
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The collapsing gun lobbyDec 16, 2018 12:00 am - Sometimes, dramatic shifts in American politics go unnoticed. They are buried under other news or dismissed because they represent such a sharp break from long-standing ...
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Supreme Court poised to strike a blow against policing for profitDec 16, 2018 12:00 am - In 2015, Tyson Timbs" Land Rover was confiscated by Indiana authorities after he pled guilty to selling $225 of heroin to undercover officers to finance his opiate addic...
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Now, it's up to Pritzker to find long-term solutions despite short-term costsDec 14, 2018 12:00 am - After four tumultuous years of dysfunction between Gov. Rauner and the General Assembly, a multitude of difficult challenges await Gov.-elect Pritzker. These challenges ...