Opinion Columns
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Assessor's lawsuit is mockery of campaign finance fairnessFeb 02, 2018 12:00 am - Taxpayers in Cook County pay for a lot. Whether it's expensive sales taxes, the former soda tax, liquor tax, gas tax or anything else with a steeper price tag in Cook th...
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U.S. takes another step into quicksand of Middle EastFeb 02, 2018 12:00 am - Watching the troubling events on the northern Syrian border with Turkey - events that once again drag the United States even deeper into the Middle East - my thoughts go...
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On immigration, Trump goes for it allFeb 01, 2018 12:00 am - Back in 2015, before the presidential primaries began, a voter asked candidate Donald Trump if he believed compromise should be part of politics. "Compromise is not a ba...
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Can Trump sustain newfound aura of gravitas?Feb 01, 2018 12:00 am - It was a good speech. Calm down. I said good. Despite talking for an hour and 20 minutes, the longest speech since Bill Clinton's much-mocked 2000 stemwinder, Donald Tr...
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Trump's conspiracy theories endanger democracyJan 31, 2018 12:00 am - Just as Bill Clinton's 1998 State of the Union address is known as the speech after the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke, Donald Trump's 2018 State of the Union address is ...
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Trump acted like a normal president at Davos. Good!Jan 30, 2018 12:00 am - DAVOS - Ever since Donald Trump was elected president, I have said that when he did something right, I would say so. That's gotten me into trouble with some readers, but...
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Center must stand firm in immigration-budget standoffJan 30, 2018 12:00 am - Can the center hold? That's the most intriguing question to emerge from the partisan standoff that closed the federal government for three days. Two dozen moderates from...
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Want to make a difference? Become a high school sports officialJan 29, 2018 12:00 am - They don't make the headlines, their names are not in the box scores and they don't make the all-star teams, but perhaps the most important individuals in high school sp...
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What to call Trump's fear of investigation?Jan 28, 2018 12:00 am - Conspiracies. Secret societies. Witch hunts. During the past year, we've heard reference to all of the above to explain away any suggestion of collusion between the Tru...
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Rational approach to immigration is not a new ideaJan 28, 2018 12:00 am - As a foreign correspondent who was able to cross national borders and chart thematic changes in whole regions, I look back on one of the most revealing moments - before ...