Opinion Columns
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Outside Syria, difficult adjustmentsAug 29, 2013 5:00 am - ZAATRI REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan — I ask a Syrian refugee named Isra why her 8-year-old boy isn’t attending the camp school. “He doesn’t like school,” she explains. At home i...
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The wrong conversation about raceAug 28, 2013 5:00 am - If I had a son, he would look like Christopher Lane, the 22-year-old Australian baseball player shot dead while jogging in Oklahoma. If I had a father, he’d look like De...
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Women’s rights moving forward? Not in these casesAug 26, 2013 11:49 am - And so once more we gather to celebrate Aug. 26, the 93rd anniversary of that historic day when women finally won the right to vote. Our optimistic foremothers fervently...
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How our reporter got rocker to change his tune on Beatles storyAug 25, 2013 5:00 am - LAKE GENEVA, Wis. — Yes, the Lake Geneva dateline is a bit beside the point, but I was so excited about a story Josh Stockinger wrote in Friday's editions I felt compell...
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A parent letting goAug 25, 2013 5:00 am - Eventually, the cosmologists assure us, our sun and all suns will consume their fuel, violently explode and then become cold and dark. Matter itself will evaporate into ...
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70 mph limit should apply to metro ChicagoAug 23, 2013 10:33 am - The recently signed 70 mph speed-limit bill begins to undo the damage done by the national 55 mph limit established in 1973. Illinois had a 70 mph speed limit 40 years a...
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What you should know about Congress right nowAug 23, 2013 5:00 am - Deeply unpopular and flagrantly unproductive, Congress is on its August recess right now. It won’t return until Sept. 9, after a five-week recess, leaving itself just a ...
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Fractured GOP still in need of a planAug 22, 2013 5:00 am - Republicans are buzzing about a new Gallup poll showing public approval of President Obama’s handling of the economy has fallen to 35 percent, while disapproval has rise...
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A timely perspective on what happens in schoolsAug 22, 2013 5:00 am - It’s hard to believe that whole weeks have passed since we’ve written or said anything about teacher pensions, even as the state’s debt to them accumulates at that now-m...
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Coalition of NRA, ACLU assures more deathsAug 21, 2013 5:00 am - Question: What do the National Rifle Association and the American Civil Liberties Union have in common? Answer: The determination to stop New York Mayor Michael Bloomber...