Opinion Columns
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Why Bain questions matterMay 27, 2012 5:00 am - Who are the dastardly enemies of free enterprise who decided to make an issue of Mitt Romney’s tenure at the private-equity firm Bain Capital? Er, those would be his fel...
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The United States of GamblingMay 25, 2012 5:00 am - A surprising fact: Gamblers spent more last year at commercial casinos in Indiana than they did at non-Indian casinos in all but three other states — not surprisingly, N...
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The delicate art of keeping letters lively, civilizedMay 24, 2012 5:00 am - Letters, we get letters. And most of them need the close attention of an editor. And sometimes they don’t get as much as they should. In the first case: The mission of F...
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The Mitt you see is what you getMay 23, 2012 5:00 am - For all of Mitt Romney’s talk of what he would do on Day One in the White House — bomb Iran or was it Planned Parenthood? -- there’s just as good a chance he would be ta...
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Catholics won’t go quietlyMay 23, 2012 5:00 am - In a blowout presidential election, a few large issues dominate. In a tight election, a range of smaller concerns — important to strategic constituencies in battleground...
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The citizen and the governmentMay 22, 2012 5:00 am - In Aesop’s fable “The Grasshopper and the Ant,” there are moral, economic and political lessons for our time. As the story goes, the lazy grasshopper wiles away his summ...
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Grief is not a mental illnessMay 21, 2012 9:36 am - We moderns seem determined to suppress all unhappiness with one exception: grief. The intense sadness following loss of a loved one still occupies a warm spot in our cul...
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A whiff of ‘hope and change’May 21, 2012 5:00 am - President Obama’s evolutionary leap on same-sex marriage is a historic advance in the nation’s long march toward equality and justice. It is also a bold political gambit...
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Same-sex marriage: Empathy or right?May 21, 2012 5:00 am - There are two ways to defend gay marriage. Argument A is empathy: One is influenced by gay friends in committed relationships yearning for the fulfillment and acceptance...
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The menace of bipartisanshipMay 20, 2012 5:00 am - Bipartisanship, the supposed scarcity of which so distresses the high-minded, actually is disastrously prevalent. Since 2001, it has produced No Child Left Behind, a cou...