Opinion Columns
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We must find our moral outrage on Myanmar refugee crisisSep 25, 2017 1:00 am - I asked a Rohingya refugee I met in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, India, how I should pronounce the word Rohingya. His response was "call us Burmese not Rohingy...
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Trump's embrace of a post-American worldSep 24, 2017 1:00 am - President Trump's speech to the United Nations was well delivered. But it was a strange mishmash of topics and tones, in parts celebrating realpolitik but then also asse...
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The most important story we'll ever cover. Until tomorrow.Sep 23, 2017 2:00 pm - As Cubs TV analyst Jim Deshaies put it: "This is the most important game of the year ... until tomorrow." The comment came during Thursday's first game of a crucial seri...
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Trump's welcome flirtation with the UNSep 22, 2017 1:00 am - NEW YORK - When you discount the rhetorical overkill, the most surprising thing about Donald Trump's address to the United Nations Tuesday was how conventional it was. H...
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The New Center seeks volunteersSep 22, 2017 1:00 am - By Kathleen Parker NEW YORK - This city's annual gridlock festival, otherwise known as the United Nations General Assembly, is a proper metaphor for America's current st...
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Correspondents get the story right -- in Vietnam and AfghanistanSep 21, 2017 1:00 am - Ken Burns' brilliant television exposition "The Vietnam War" not surprisingly brought forth in me, as with many other Americans, old and troubling memories. From the fir...
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Over DACA, an acute case of Trump Panic SyndromeSep 21, 2017 1:00 am - The entire politico-media complex had a nervous breakdown last week over President Trump's position on DACA. Lawmakers, journalists and activists jumped to all sorts of ...
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Hard-liners on DACA may be too hard-hearted for TrumpSep 20, 2017 1:00 am - Scheming. Backstabbing. Manipulating. Name calling. Political maneuvering. When did the immigration debate become an episode of "The Apprentice"? You know the answer. It...
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Apparently, Trump decided it was time to get something doneSep 19, 2017 1:00 am - Rarely, if ever, have so many presidential winners and losers been so incessantly chatty. Hillary Clinton - who lost the 2016 election, in case you weren't sure - is on ...
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Political systems needs to accommodate human complexitySep 19, 2017 1:00 am - In his prescient science-fiction novel "The Diamond Age," Neal Stephenson describes a post-national world in which people organize themselves into affinity groups called...