Opinion Columns
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On Iraq, difficult choices now and to comeJul 06, 2014 5:01 am - The summary moment of Barack Obama's foreign policy came in August 2013 during a consequential stroll. Walking on the South Lawn of the White House with his chief of sta...
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Poverty at the core of school failureJul 04, 2014 5:01 am - I oppose charter schools because they address the wrong problem. The real cause of academic failure is not, as charter proponents contend, bad teachers, teachers unions ...
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Don't let Congress decide what's 'reasonable'Jul 03, 2014 5:01 am - While much of Washington grapples with international crises, chronic economic troubles and upcoming midterm elections, Senate Democrats are steadily pushing forward with...
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How to define an AmericanJul 03, 2014 5:01 am - It's a summer night in Washington. On the Mall, across from the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, people are sitting on lawn chairs and huddled on blankets staring at a w...
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Believe your own eyes, not the deniersJul 02, 2014 5:00 am - A friend of mine worked for a small-town newspaper years ago and had to write the weather report. The county fair was approaching but the prediction was for rain. So the...
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Into the morassJul 01, 2014 5:01 am - Remember the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush? It happened on Dec. 14, 2008, near the end of the president's second term. Bush had travel...
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The power of authenticityJul 01, 2014 5:01 am - When I worked as a Senate aide in the early 1990s, the state of New York was represented by two figures who could hardly have been more different. Democrat Daniel Patric...
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Hillary Clinton's immigration misstepJun 29, 2014 5:01 am - We already knew the immigration issue was a tough one for Republicans. They have a hard time opposing legal status for the undocumented without sounding anti-Hispanic. T...
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The lesson Congress should learn from the VA scandalJun 29, 2014 5:01 am - Like other federal scandals before it, the mess involving VA hospitals has followed a well-trod path. First comes the revelation of misdoing. Then comes the reaction: a ...
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Target overly generous state salaries to cut budgetJun 27, 2014 5:01 am - Citizens and politicians agree: Illinois' budget is a mess. Yet nothing ever seems to be done about it. Why not? Because one-third of the state's spending - employee com...