Opinion Columns
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Amid Trump's chaos, a post-American world emergesAug 01, 2017 1:00 am - In London last week, I met a Nigerian man who succinctly expressed the reaction of much of the world to America these days. "Your country has gone crazy," he said, with ...
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Buyer remorse sets in for flyover country Trump votersAug 01, 2017 1:00 am - By Gene Lyons "You can fool too many of the people too much of the time." - James Thurber Out here in flyover country, you can't hardly go by the feed store without run...
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A summer warning for parents and teensJul 31, 2017 1:00 am - Did you know that teens are most likely to experiment with alcohol and drugs for the first time during the months of June and July? According to surveys by the Substanc...
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Parker: Trumps odd loss of faith in SessionsJul 30, 2017 11:00 pm - By Kathleen Parker Eventually, everyone in this town seems to wind up with the word "poor" in front of his or her name. Such a fate is especially likely if one has asso...
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At Dunkirk, the deliverance of a nationJul 30, 2017 1:00 am - By Michael Gerson That one of the greatest victories of World War II was a mass evacuation - more than 300,000 British and French troops taken off a beach at Dunkirk - w...
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Davis: A GoPro, a goat and yoga at Elburn farmJul 29, 2017 2:00 pm - Actual email discussion on deadline among Senior Photographer Brian Hill, Director of Photography Jeff Knox and yours truly: Me: Brian, the goat's pictures are better th...
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Moment of reckoningJul 28, 2017 1:00 am - President Trump has reached a "moment of reckoning," says Sen. Lindsey Graham, the outspoken Republican from South Carolina. And he is correct. The issue is a program cr...
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Venezuelan chaos has roots in CubaJul 28, 2017 1:00 am - Something is not quite right about this summer's stories from Venezuela, that immensely resource-rich but impoverished Latin American nation seemingly headed toward civi...
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Homage to a great editorJul 27, 2017 1:00 am - Behind every great column is a great editor - a truism never more so than when Alan Shearer puts highlighter (not red pen) to copy. Shearer, who has run The Washington P...
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Restoring faith in representative democracyJul 26, 2017 1:00 am - There's no shortage of threats to our democracy. Russian meddling in elections, the vulnerability of state voting systems to hacking, politicians' assaults on the media ...