Opinion Columns
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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 ...
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Why are Republicans trouncing Democrats in fundraising?Jul 26, 2017 1:00 am - The Republican president has a job approval rating around 40 percent. The GOP has an unfavorability rating around 56 percent. And Republicans trail Democrats by nine poi...
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Trump's problem is not communication. It's leadershipJul 25, 2017 1:00 am - Anthony Scaramucci's rollout as Donald Trump's new communications director received mainly good reviews. He is, as any White House job in the current administration requ...
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U.S. stumbling into another decade of war in the Middle EastJul 25, 2017 1:00 am - While we have been focused on the results of special elections, the ups and downs of the Russia investigation, and President Trump's latest tweets, under the radar, a br...