Opinion Columns
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Immigrants arrive with their pasts intactDec 01, 2015 12:00 am - Until the advent of Donald Trump's presidential candidacy, the word "immigration" tended to mean the controlled and more-or-less legal movement of one people to another ...
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For continued growth in Chicago, pass TPPNov 30, 2015 12:00 am - My small business relies on trade policies that help American companies compete in overseas markets. The Trans-Pacific Partnership will help reduce tariffs and other bar...
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Davis: 'Fuddy Duddy' gives critic a reason to smileNov 28, 2015 1:00 pm - The writer of a letter to the editor that appears on this page takes some pretty good jabs at the Daily Herald in his unsolicited critique of the Saturday, Nov. 21, edit...
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Obamacare troubles a gift to 2016 GOP candidatesNov 27, 2015 12:00 am - There have been many articles in the last year with some variation of the headline "GOP Surrenders on Obamacare." The stories mostly concern a tendency among some Republ...
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The irony of Hastert's constitutional defenseNov 27, 2015 12:00 am - Those who revel in the fall of Dennis Hastert might find sobering the notion of just how close he apparently came to entirely avoiding criminal prosecution. It could be ...
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There's more to defeating ISIS than blustery rhetoricNov 26, 2015 12:00 am - By Gene Lyons "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire Years before Navy Seals killed Osama bin Laden, this column argued...
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Let's remember some of the good stories todayNov 26, 2015 12:00 am - With apologies to Paul Harvey: You know what the bad news is; today let's celebrate the rest of the story of who we are. For we are not ISIS, and we are not Boko Haram, ...
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Bombs, boots aren't enough to beat 'crazy'Nov 25, 2015 12:00 am - One week, Beirut and Paris; the next week, Mali. The nightmare is young. Where next? The pace and threat of terror seem to have picked up, each incident feeding on the p...
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The Trump effect, still 'understated'Nov 25, 2015 12:00 am - The presidential candidate who has consistently led the Republican field for four months, Donald Trump, has proposed: forcibly expel 11 million people from the country, ...
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Princeton debate ignores the whole WilsonNov 24, 2015 12:00 am - At Princeton University, the image and name of Woodrow Wilson could soon be erased. He was the school's president from 1902 to 1910, reforming it, transforming it and se...