Opinion Columns
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The center is not holdingAug 22, 2017 1:00 am - By Georgie Anne Geyer Many years ago, when Chile was on the verge of civil war, a Belgian Jesuit priest named Father Roger Vekemans impressed me with his unsentimental c...
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America's elites respond to Trump with cowardiceAug 20, 2017 1:00 am - Much of America has reacted swiftly and strongly to Donald Trump's grotesque suggestion that there is a moral equivalence between the white supremacists who converged la...
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World is watching America's response to hate speechAug 20, 2017 1:00 am - The events in Charlottesville, Virginia, continue to reverberate, but are seen as a domestic political issue. How do we reconcile Americans' right to assemble and to eng...
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Davis: Chuck Fulco, our awesome total eclipse expertAug 19, 2017 2:00 pm - Not that I know many eclipse experts, but in my book, Chuck Fulco is the rock star of the genre. As evidence, I offer the following: • He's 55 years old, and has been ca...
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Governor's school-funding reform plan is fatally flawedAug 18, 2017 1:00 am - Illinois' school funding system consistently ranks as one of the most inequitable and least adequate in America. In virtually every national study on the subject, Illino...
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How can you stand by a president with no heart?Aug 18, 2017 1:00 am - By Michael Gerson "O mother / What shall I cry? / We demand a committee, a representative / committee, a committee of investigation / RESIGN RESIGN RESIGN" - T.S. Eliot...
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Slusher: Our side of the street on eclipse coverageAug 17, 2017 1:00 am - Most newspaper reporters and editors are not scientists. This little excerpt from NASA's website on the coming solar eclipse (https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEmono/refere...
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Trump fails the testAug 17, 2017 1:00 am - The American presidency is really two jobs. As head of government, the chief executive leads his party and fights his political battles. Head of state is a very differen...
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Trump-backed immigration bill has many critics, but voters like itAug 16, 2017 1:00 am - Some Democrats and their advocates in the press have been quick to denounce the RAISE Act, the new immigration reform bill proposed by Republican Sens. Tom Cotton and Da...
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Trump's worst economic ideaAug 15, 2017 1:00 am - By Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts President Trump has made countless ignorant and inaccurate statements during his first six months in office. No, his inaugural cro...