Opinion Columns
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Trump has much to learn about being an evangelicalDec 16, 2015 12:00 am - There is a fine line between reflecting the concerns of voters and performing a crude and offensive imitation that mocks and defiles their deepest beliefs. OK, maybe not...
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The unbearably brilliant 'Son of Saul'Dec 15, 2015 12:00 am - By Richard Cohen Sonderkommando was the Nazi term for an extermination camp prisoner who was forced to help in the hard work of murder. Routinely, the Sonderkommandos th...
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Why are hard truths so hard for conservatives?Dec 14, 2015 12:00 am - Be afraid. Be very, very afraid. Along with watching cable news terrorism coverage 24/7, some people appear to think it's your patriotic duty to run around with your hai...
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Dachau becomes a sanctuaryDec 13, 2015 12:00 am - DACHAU, Germany - In a place synonymous with death, life has taken an unexpected turn. The radiating crisis of the Middle East has reached Bavaria in the form of refugee...
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Davis: The long, strange trip of reporting PARCC resultsDec 12, 2015 1:00 pm - Tim Broderick, our editor of data journalism and graphics, got the word about 4 p.m. Wednesday. The final release of state report card info - how our children fared on a...
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Explorers saddened to be told they're no longer needed in Fox LakeDec 10, 2015 10:00 pm - Last week, the Fox Lake Explorers and their parents met with the Fox Lake Police Department and the Mayor Donny Schmidt. Previously, the last meeting of the year has alw...
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The coming battle over GuantanamoDec 10, 2015 12:00 am - Congress recently forbade President Obama from bringing Guantanamo inmates to the United States, or even preparing a place in the U.S. to which the terrorist prisoners m...
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Opposition victory rocks VenezuelaDec 10, 2015 12:00 am - As it happened, I was present as a journalist at the birth of a new model for Latin America. It was an exciting time, that fall of 1998. Exactly a week before the presid...
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Only things missing in Obama strategy: urgency, leadershipDec 09, 2015 12:00 am - In his address to the nation on terrorism, President Obama warned against "tough talk." On this, at least, no one can accuse him of hypocrisy. In the aftermath of recen...
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Personalizing the politics of gunsDec 09, 2015 12:00 am - Years ago, I rushed up the stairs to the Tobacco Institute in Washington and confronted the people working there: How could you? How could you lie to us about the danger...