Opinion Columns
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Reagan: The real Crying Game involves American childrenJul 10, 2018 1:00 am - By Michael Reagan I understand why the national media is so obsessed over the story of children of illegal immigrants being separated from their parents at the Mexican b...
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Parker: At Marquette, conservatives got it wrongJul 10, 2018 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Free speech won; decency lost. This has become such a common observation that it hardly merits a headline. But in a Wisconsin Supreme Court case resolved Fr...
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State should follow Chicago's lead and raise the minimum wageJul 09, 2018 1:00 am - On July 1, the city of Chicago raised its local minimum wage to $12 an hour. The move is part of an incremental process the Chicago City Council initiated in 2014 to rai...
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Solution to immigration crisis begins south of the borderJul 08, 2018 1:00 am - One of the insights a foreign correspondent like me gains quickly from history is that, strangely enough, the big problems in foreign policy often have their roots in sm...
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Offenders should still be treated with humanityJul 08, 2018 1:00 am - An administration not known for policy creativity is unlikely to have useful internal policy debates. But in the Trump administration, prison reform is a welcome excepti...
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Hysteria order of the day for Supreme Court speculationJul 06, 2018 1:00 am - If Chicken Little and Cassandra had a baby, they'd name him Jeffrey Toobin. Anyone watching CNN lately has probably heard Toobin's prediction that if a conservative fill...
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Donald Trump's mainstream immigration policyJul 06, 2018 1:00 am - Perhaps no Trump policy has provoked more emotional reaction than the practice of separating illegal border crossers from the children they brought with them to the Unit...
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The moral implications of the GOP's Trumpian turnJul 05, 2018 1:00 am - With President Donald Trump's forthcoming nomination of a Supreme Court justice likely to rally and unify the Republican coalition, some commentators are (again) declari...
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Those words of the Pledge pack a powerful meaningJul 05, 2018 1:00 am - You know the Pledge of Allegiance, probably by heart. You may recite it only occasionally, or get the chance several times a week. Sometimes, I'm guessing, you say it me...
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Assaults on meritocracy forebode return to elitism of the pastJul 04, 2018 1:00 am - LONDON - In recent weeks, you might have heard about two seemingly unrelated issues that are actually quite connected. In New York, Mayor Bill de Blasio signaled his des...