Opinion Columns
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Hooked on politics after one night in ’60Oct 25, 2013 5:00 am - On Nov. 4, 1960, I was a freshman at the University of Illinois-Navy Pier. I was not very political, though I had been following the presidential campaign between John K...
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Written off for dead, immigration reform could still liveOct 24, 2013 12:42 pm - The Senate and House had not even settled the final details of ending the government shutdown before President Obama was on to his next priority. “We still need to pass ...
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A health care law in need of a doctorOct 24, 2013 5:00 am - For liberals, it is a cruel twist of history that Harry Truman’s dream of universal health coverage, carried forward by generations of committed Democrats, should fall t...
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Free speech: For good, ill or in between, it’s to die forOct 24, 2013 5:00 am - In honor of National Free Speech Week, I’d really like to wax loquacious on this important fundamental right, but I know I can’t improve on the eloquent simplicity of th...
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Marching with Lee: A countercultural vision forwardOct 23, 2013 5:00 am - Sen. Mike Lee is a man to listen to. Washington, D.C., Congress and some Republican senators are not the most popular people in America today, but suspend your judgment ...
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Snowden, reconsideredOct 23, 2013 5:00 am - What are we to make of Edward Snowden? I know what I once made of him. He was no real whistle-blower, I wrote, but “ridiculously cinematic” and “narcissistic” as well. A...
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A House divided cannot governOct 22, 2013 5:00 am - Seldom does politics offer the rigor and certainty of science, but we have just witnessed a case that comes close. Tea Party leaders predicted that a shutdown strategy w...
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The crux of CruzOct 20, 2013 5:00 am - Two things are often said in the capital: “A day is a year in politics.” And, “It’s all about 2014.” Combined, the two statements mean that much can happen between now a...
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Ever so small signs this insanity won’t happen againOct 20, 2013 5:00 am - In the last hours of the government shutdown, the bizarre got even more bizarre. Progressive clergy and low-wage workers affected by the shutdown visited more than a doz...
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The women are taking overOct 18, 2013 5:00 am - The headline in The Washington Post read, “Moderates flex muscle.” Below that were pictures of 12 senators, six from each party, who are helping to forge a bipartisan co...