Opinion Columns
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Others proving they can use social media as well as Trump, NRAMar 02, 2018 12:00 am - By Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts President Donald Trump has always been extremely adept at using social media - first to win the election, and then to keep his cor...
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Xi is transforming China. Is Washington taking notice?Mar 02, 2018 12:00 am - Amid the flurry of news about Hope Hicks and Jared Kushner and this week's Trump reality show on guns, it would be easy to miss what's happening in China. But it is huge...
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Slusher: In a week of controversy, how endorsements are madeMar 01, 2018 12:00 am - By Jim Slusher The sensational news of the week regarding Daily Herald endorsements involved one we took back, our decision to rescind our endorsement of Burt Minor in t...
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New generation offers hope on gunsMar 01, 2018 12:00 am - In years to come, some bright grad student in a small university in the heartland will do a groundbreaking dissertation on the gun control drama of 2018, and thus make h...
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Trump and Obama: Who's really tougher on Russia?Feb 28, 2018 12:00 am - Recently, President Donald Trump tweeted, "I have been much tougher on Russia than Obama, just look at the facts. Total Fake News!" The tweet was greeted with incredulit...
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Don't tread on this voter's T-shirtFeb 27, 2018 12:00 am - By George F. Will Andrew Cilek might be - this is just a hunch - unaware that 2018 is Brooks Brothers' bicentennial. Judging by what he wore when he went out to vote in ...
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Apocalyptic thinking paralyzes politics of gun violenceFeb 27, 2018 12:00 am - It is one of the dirty habits of our political discourse that so many people use thermonuclear rhetorical weapons as a first resort. It is not enough for defenders of gu...
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Include voices of students in debate on transgenderFeb 26, 2018 12:00 am - If you look through our high school yearbooks, we are probably not the students you would place together. One of us is a freshman; one is looking seriously at colleges t...
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Russian trolls knew their targets wellFeb 25, 2018 12:00 am - How clever are these Russians! We now learn that they placed at least 3,000 ads on Facebook to confuse and divide the American people, that they connived at a "photo" of...
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Bring me your fire and brimstoneFeb 25, 2018 12:00 am - Oh, for God's sake. What else can one say about the week after Florida's high school massacre? Funerals for the 17 students and faculty were barely begun before rhetori...