Opinion Columns
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The radical hospitality of pro-life movementJan 10, 2017 12:00 am - "Radical hospitality and generosity." That's a phrase I heard Carter Snead, a law professor at Notre Dame, use this fall and I can't get it out of my head. It's an attra...
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President-elect TrumpschenkoJan 10, 2017 12:00 am - First, a history refresher: For the past nine years, a smattering of Americans, most recently led by our now president-elect, have insisted that Barack Obama is a Muslim...
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Five state reforms that can reinvigorate the Illinois economyJan 09, 2017 12:00 am - Setting public policy for Illinois should not be a zero-sum game where one side wins everything and the other gets nothing. That approach is destined for failure, and, c...
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Tough week for suburban cops, but they rise to the challengeJan 07, 2017 1:00 pm - I'd bet the Streamwood police officer who wrote the report on the missing 18-year-old had no idea it would be part of a horrific story that appalled the nation. The repo...
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The hypocrisy behind Julian Assange's hero turnJan 06, 2017 12:00 am - One of the most confusing shifts of the Trump ascendancy is, on reflection, one of the most clarifying. Donald Trump's, Sarah Palin's and Sean Hannity's embrace of Juli...
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Global migration threatens a global disasterJan 06, 2017 12:00 am - Just in case you are wondering what the most serious question of the New Year will be, you might well start by thinking about Russia's evil power plays, about the vulgar...
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Slusher: Making a direct connection with would-be local leadersJan 05, 2017 12:00 am - With their impact on your property taxes and leadership in your community, local elections can be the most direct opportunity for you to shape your schools and your qual...
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On Russia hacks, it's jump-to-conclusions vs. wait-and-seeJan 05, 2017 12:00 am - President-elect Trump stirred yet more controversy Saturday night when, as he entered his New Year's Eve party at Mar-a-Lago, he said he is not convinced the intelligenc...
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How Debbie Reynolds and 'Singin' in the Rain' have brightened my lifeJan 04, 2017 12:00 am - You can't be sad or cynical watching "Singin' in the Rain." I dare you to even try. Those rich Technicolor hues; those dashing jawlines and cherubic smiles; the wry chor...
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To live as if we are lovedJan 04, 2017 12:00 am - Many of us have a traumatic childhood memory of losing our mother's hand in a grocery or department store and feeling, for a panicky moment, that we may never be found a...