Opinion Columns
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What really happened with the GOP platform and RussiaNov 30, 2017 12:00 am - It's one of the enduring misconceptions of the Trump-Russia affair. During the 2016 Republican convention, the story goes, the Trump campaign weakened a critical passage...
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Here's 'what about' Roy Moore that is differentNov 30, 2017 12:00 am - Call the CDC. Alert the surgeon general and put the National Institutes of Health on standby. We're having a severe outbreak of whataboutism. In mild forms, the primary ...
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Magic bullets and fairy dustNov 29, 2017 10:00 pm - At the core of the Republican tax measures now rushing through Congress is a big, fat falsehood: Tax cuts, goes the fantasy, generate so much economic activity and gover...
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Thinking deeper to put sexual harassment in perspectiveNov 29, 2017 10:00 pm - CHICAGO - In mid-November, just west of the Windy City, one of America's most distinguished journalists recalled how hard it is, even in a profession as individualistic ...
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Truth is outed as journalism blocks would-be 'fake news' stingNov 29, 2017 12:00 am - The phrase "the truth will out" has always been at home in American newsrooms where journalists dedicate their days to making it so. Sometimes Truth needs a little nudge...
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How tribal politics curse us with tribal moralityNov 28, 2017 12:00 am - By Michael Gerson America is currently cursed, not only with tribal politics, but with tribal morality. Some liberals tend to minimize or excuse offenses against a few w...
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Trump's snub of Nobel winners another blow to science in U.S.Nov 28, 2017 12:00 am - By Keith Peterson Guest columnist When President John F. Kennedy hosted a gala dinner for Nobel Prize winners in 1962, he observed that it was the most extraordinary col...
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Congress should modify ACA provisions to protect MedicareNov 27, 2017 12:00 am - Roughly 35,000 Illinois seniors will be diagnosed with cancer in the coming year. Fighting cancer is scary enough and patients shouldn't have to worry about access to th...
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Six scenarios for GOP disaster in Roy Moore Senate raceNov 26, 2017 12:00 am - "Given the unusual circumstances and very unusual personality involved, it's hard to see this working out well," one laconic Republican lawmaker said recently of the Roy...
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Out of the mouth of PutinNov 26, 2017 12:00 am - Russia is all over the news these days and, despite our president's cozying up to Vladimir Putin, the dominant picture of the Russian president is still that of the impl...