Opinion Columns
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What happens to Trumpism now?Nov 09, 2018 12:00 am - Now that Democrats have won the House majority by a slim margin, what happens next? Their power to shape legislation will be limited, but that's not the whole story. Dem...
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Extremes are strangling common sense solution to border crisisNov 09, 2018 12:00 am - More than 30 years ago, I began going down to the U.S.-Mexican border on a regular basis. I was a correspondent covering Latin America, and I knew, appreciated and loved...
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As the world moves on, the Brett Kavanaugh fight continuesNov 08, 2018 12:00 am - Justice Brett Kavanaugh is on the Supreme Court, but the fight over his nomination goes on. The battle is not being fought by Democratic dead-enders who cannot accept th...
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Will Democrats help Trump turn his fake midterm victory into a real one in 2020?Nov 08, 2018 12:00 am - In the spirit of the political season, I want to claim credit for the most STUPENDOUS, INSIGHTFUL and POWERFUL political strategy since Pericles bound the DELIAN LEAGUE ...
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Don't let midterm madness blot out memory of KhashoggiNov 07, 2018 12:00 am - The midterm elections are finally over, more or less, and we got what we got - Donald Trump is still president. Sorry, but someone had to say it. Now back to the cold r...
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Cake walk: Nearly half of Illinois House candidates face no opponentNov 06, 2018 12:00 am - By Austin Berg Guest columnist There are 118 seats in the Illinois House of Representatives. But before a single vote is cast on Election Day, nearly half of those seats...
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What Evidence-Based Funding is teaching us about school performanceNov 06, 2018 12:00 am - For generations, Illinois had a school funding formula that was so flawed it created one of the most inequitable and inadequate education funding systems in America. It ...
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Why Trump can't order an end to birthright citizenshipNov 05, 2018 1:00 am - On Oct. 30, Donald Trump announced that he would end the "ridiculous" birthright citizenship for children born of noncitizens on U.S. soil. To achieve that end, Trump st...
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Republicans not the party of Trump, but of Joe McCarthyNov 04, 2018 1:00 am - By Fareed Zakaria It is commonplace to hear and read about President Donald Trump's takeover of the Republican Party. And certainly there is lots of evidence that the GO...
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In honor of our prince of scribesNov 04, 2018 1:00 am - BEAUFORT, S.C. - As the famed author Pat Conroy began his journey from this earth two years ago, he might have dreamed of weekends like this. To see one of his dying wi...