Opinion Columns
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A solvable problemFeb 05, 2013 4:00 am - It was always clear that the 11 million people in this country without papers were not going to be rounded up and deported. The question was when our leaders would offic...
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Vacuums of sovereigntyFeb 04, 2013 4:00 am - Break out your pith helmet, wax your mustache and raise a toast at the club: The French have liberated Tombouctou. It seems like the headline from the age of imperialis...
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From I don’t to I doFeb 04, 2013 4:00 am - More than perhaps anyone else in America, David Blankenhorn personifies the struggle so many have experienced over same-sex marriage. First he was agnostic, then he was ...
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Brave new world of text messaging, courtroom camerasFeb 03, 2013 4:00 am - The other day, while scrolling through the thread of my text messages, I discovered the person I swap notes with most often, after my wife and son, is Josh Stockinger, w...
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The price of moral grandstandingFeb 03, 2013 4:00 am - Politics becomes amusing when liberalism becomes theatrical with high-minded gestures. Chicago’s government, which is not normally known for elevated thinking, is feelin...
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Obama’s test on immigrationFeb 01, 2013 4:00 am - President Barack Obama has grown testy about reporters who have a “default position” that policy debates have two sides. “On almost every issue,” he recently told The Ne...
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Not all smiles on immigration reform?Feb 01, 2013 4:00 am - Such a happy scene: Republican senators grinning next to Democratic senators as though the debt-ceiling crisis, Obamacare and Sarah Palin never happened. The unifying ev...
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Protecting the currency of trust in all we publishJan 31, 2013 8:33 am - It’s hard to believe it’s been a decade since New York Times reporter Jayson Blair was caught in a web of deceit and plagiarism that cast a deep stain of doubt on the cr...
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On torture, a debate we needJan 31, 2013 4:00 am - In retrospect, a better title for the terrific film “Zero Dark Thirty” would have been “Rorschach.” Like the famous ink blots developed by Swiss psychoanalyst Hermann Ro...
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Questions that need askingJan 29, 2013 4:00 am - Republicans wanted nothing more than to summon Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Capitol Hill and grill her about the tragic fiasco in Benghazi. Sadly for them, they...