Opinion Columns
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To be black in AmericaMar 25, 2012 5:00 am - For every black man in America, from the millionaire in the corner office to the mechanic in the local garage, the Trayvon Martin tragedy is personal. It could have been...
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Obamacare: The reckoningMar 25, 2012 5:00 am - Obamacare dominated the 2010 midterms, driving its Democratic authors to a historic electoral shellacking. But since then, the issue has slipped quietly underground. Now...
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Mum's the word on Sean Payton, superintendentsMar 25, 2012 5:00 am - Hate the sin, love the sinner. That's the phrase that jumped out at me as I edited Justin Kmitch's story on local reaction to the news that one of Naperville's favorite...
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The goings on at GoldmanMar 23, 2012 1:00 am - Midlevel executives at big Wall Street firms leave every day of the week, particularly if — as was the case with Greg Smith — they’ve worked somewhere for 11 years and h...
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The big economic pictureMar 22, 2012 9:36 am - Americans and Europeans will remember the last several years as a period of economic insecurity. But the economic history of our times will be recounted very differently...
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A reason missing from presidential politicsMar 22, 2012 1:00 am - Thus far, the 2012 presidential campaign has been unfocused, dispiriting and largely irrelevant. By the time Election Day comes, a weary nation will be at the point of p...
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Looking for identity in a nameMar 22, 2012 1:00 am - What’s in a name? Most of us, perhaps regrettably, do not get to select our own names and are saddled with our parents’ projections of what we might be. It is entertaini...
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The long and short of Israel’s dilemmaMar 21, 2012 1:00 am - Nations have doctrines. The Soviet Union had the Brezhnev Doctrine and the United States had the Monroe Doctrine, among others. Even little Israel has one. I call it th...
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High-flying corporate welfareMar 21, 2012 1:00 am - Sallie James was born in Australia on July 4, 1976, which suggests that Providence planned what happened 30 years later: She moved to Washington. She studies trade polic...
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Seaweed in your gas tankMar 20, 2012 5:00 am - Yes, of course, presidents have no direct control over gas prices. But the American people know something about this president and his disdain for oil. The “fuel of the ...