Opinion Columns
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Are Trump's new tariffs 'liberation'? Judge for yourself.Apr 04, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Veronique de Rugy:
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The annual White House Correspondents' Dinner fiascoApr 04, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Byron York: This year’s annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner will raise a fundamental question for the media: Why are we doing this?
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A light meditation on a seasonal public spectacleApr 03, 2025 3:23 pm - Columnist Jim Slusher: The spring spectacle of NCAA tournament basketball may be madness, but it is surely an exhilarating madness to watch play out on our television screens, to share on social media and to analyze in the newspaper.
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The importance of ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs to productivityApr 03, 2025 4:00 am - Guest columnist Keith Peterson: Increasing productivity through innovation and investment is vital for economic growth, but the administration's policies of tariffs, cutting research and restricting immigration could hamper it.
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The cover-up is always worse than the crimeApr 02, 2025 12:53 pm - Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich: The Trump team's major security breach regarding attack plans reveals not just incompetence but cover-up and lies. Loyal soldiers' lives were risked while the administration avoided responsibility.
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Chief Justice Roberts handed Trump the keys to powerApr 01, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Keith Raffel: Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts cleared a path for Trump's rise and illegal actions, from Citizens United to inventing presidential immunity. Now Trump ignores laws and claims a right "to do whatever I want".
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Abundance versus 'everything bagel' liberalismApr 01, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Michael Barone:
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On reading the news …Mar 31, 2025 4:00 am - Guest columnist Tom Montgomery Fate: As news becomes more polarized and biased, it undermines the authority and integrity of the free press, making it harder for people to determine what is factual.
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County is ensuring language access as a human rightMar 29, 2025 2:30 pm - Guest columnists Toni Preckwinkle and Josina Morita: Cook County is dedicated to language access for its diverse population, seeing it as an issue of respect and dignity, not just translation, and is expanding services to be more inclusive.