Opinion Columns
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Love on the rocksJan 03, 2017 12:00 am - What is the real story behind the old fishwives' yowling passing back and forth between Washington and Jerusalem these days? My dignified Maine Coon cat, Yankee, would b...
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Facebook or Fakebook?Jan 03, 2017 12:00 am - How can Facebook become a more reliable source of information while not shutting down the vitality of the web or shutting out voices that deserve to be heard? As the Age...
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Good riddance, 2016Jan 01, 2017 12:00 am - By George F. Will Viewing 2016 in retrospect - doing so is unpleasant, but less so than was living through it - the year resembles a china shop after a visit from an es...
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Trump wishes us all a happy thermonuclear new yearJan 01, 2017 12:00 am - Now that the presidential election is over, will it ever really end? Not if Donald J. Trump and the cable news networks get their way. Having made the election into a pr...
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Davis: No kidding, we did find political letters that made our '16 faves listJan 01, 2017 12:00 am - Truth be told, 2016 wasn't the best year for our favorite letters to the editor salute, now making its fourth annual appearance. The nastiness and viciousness of the pre...
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Evil on trial for its lifeDec 13, 2016 12:00 am - CHARLESTON, S.C. - A deep stillness settled over the federal courtroom as graphic photos were shown of the nine people murdered last year at Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church...
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Trump's dangerous dissing of the intelligence communityDec 13, 2016 12:00 am - Donald Trump has a problem that comes not from the cast of "Hamilton," but from Hamilton himself. In Federalist 68, Alexander Hamilton deals with that odd, anti-democra...
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Chicago can't close the door on our driverless futureDec 12, 2016 12:00 am - Like any other major U.S. city, Chicago is not without infrastructure woes. Track maintenance and repairs have shut down large portions of the Chicago Transit Authority ...
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The woman who takes your pictures is just grateful to be hereDec 10, 2016 1:00 pm - Bev Horne lost her voracious appetite for reading, world travel, even riding her bike. Yet that, she says, is a pretty good trade-off for being on the right side of the ...
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Finally, a debate about identity politicsDec 09, 2016 12:00 am - Amid the climate of disbelief and fear among Democrats following Donald Trump's election, a fascinating debate has broken out about what's called "identity politics" on ...