Opinion Columns
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Profiting from the presidencyJun 02, 2015 1:00 am - Gerald Ford was very briefly vice president of the United States and, following the resignation of Richard Nixon, somewhat less briefly president of the United States. H...
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Talk to right people about climate changeJun 01, 2015 1:00 am - It makes me nervous when someone who might become president of the United States says the science on climate change is "convoluted" and that it is "arrogant" to assert t...
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Davis: Strip clubs, saving small birds - all in a week's workMay 31, 2015 11:00 pm - Q. What do some of the migratory birds that crash into buildings in the Loop have in common with suburban strip clubs? A. Both are endangered species. And, I should hast...
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Bernie Sanders is Hillary's leftward advance manMay 31, 2015 1:00 am - Is Bernie Sanders pulling Hillary Clinton to the Left? No, for the same reason a canoe doesn't pull an aircraft carrier. The Vermont socialist running in the Democratic ...
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Illinois horse racing needs bigger pursesMay 29, 2015 1:00 am - Purses are the prize that Illinois horsemen race to win, and they support thousands of jobs throughout the state, from the horsemen and backstretch workers in the wester...
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Religious conservatives' shifting roleMay 28, 2015 1:00 am - The Roman historian Tacitus described Emperor Nero's persecution of Christians: "In their very deaths they were made the subjects of sport: for they were covered with th...
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Slusher: Now is the time to follow politics from suburban perspectiveMay 28, 2015 1:00 am - You may not generally care for the dry tedium of politics, but if you care about the economy of Illinois, the quality of life the suburbs or perhaps even the size of you...
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The Clintons' cloud of deviancyMay 26, 2015 11:35 pm - I recall the moment when the press finally turned against Bill Clinton. In 1998, I was a junior writer at U.S. News & World Report, then (for the children in the audienc...
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Iraq War history ensares both Hillary Clinton and Jeb BushMay 24, 2015 6:57 am - In January 2007, shortly after entering the race for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton traveled to Iowa, where one of the first questions she ...
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Jeb Bush's unfortunate honestyMay 24, 2015 6:36 am - You know we're off to the races when the first slip of the tongue by the presumed Republican presidential front-runner consumes the news for days and launches the primar...