Opinion Columns
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Educational opportunities lost when schools ban Native American symbolsMay 28, 2018 1:00 am - Have you ever wondered why Chief Illiniwek was banished as the symbol of the University of Illinois and why all the fuss about the Warrior Chief at Maine West High Schoo...
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Trump's true talent is marketing failure as successMay 27, 2018 1:00 am - Donald Trump's recurring criticism of his predecessor is that he just didn't know how to make a deal. "Obama is not a natural deal maker," he tweeted in 2016, complainin...
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Don't let 'perfect' be enemy of 'good' in nuclear negotiationsMay 27, 2018 1:00 am - In the autumn of 1962 during the Cuban missile crisis, the United States and the then-Soviet Union came as close to a nuclear exchange as has ever happened. Within a yea...
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Where are the truth-tellers?May 25, 2018 1:00 am - Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson never denied calling President Donald Trump a "moron" in private. But only after he was fired did Tillerson have the guts to say ...
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Philadelphia's unnecessary war on CatholicsMay 25, 2018 1:00 am - At a time when more than 400,000 children are in foster care nationwide, the city of Philadelphia is threatening to cut ties with Catholic Social Services because of the...
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Maduro delivers disaster in pursuit of 'supreme happiness'May 24, 2018 1:00 am - In the five disastrous years he has been president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro has been the greatest mystery among all the leaders in the world. And he remains a myster...
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Slusher: Share in a real, constructive conversation about safetyMay 24, 2018 1:00 am - In a front-page editorial on Wednesday, we on the Daily Herald editorial board vented our frustration over continued school shootings with a call for a statewide panel t...
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Is the Trump Tower meeting really proof of collusion?May 23, 2018 1:00 am - If there is an Exhibit A in the case that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to fix the presidential election, it is the June 9, 2016, meeting in Trump Tower betwee...
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Royalty dreams and a father's loveMay 22, 2018 1:00 am - You can have your royal wedding, your princess bride, your pomp and your circumstance. For a real love story, I'm going with Thomas Markle. As in the father of Meghan Ma...
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The globalization of threats - from terrorism to disease - is an unavoidable factMay 22, 2018 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Those who find "globalists" to be villains should attend to recent events in Congo. In the remote region of a remote country, government agencies and intern...