Opinion Columns
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Yes, we have an agenda when we write storiesAug 18, 2011 12:00 am - Many people assume the Daily Herald has an overriding agenda with every story we produce, and they're right. Actually, we have two agendas — to engage and to inform. Wha...
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JFK’s Berlin blunderAug 17, 2011 5:00 am - Fifty years ago, a metaphor became concrete. Beginning on Aug. 13, 1961, along West Berlin’s 27-mile border, the Iron Curtain became tangible in a wall of precast slabs ...
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The Texas gipperAug 17, 2011 5:00 am - Watching the emergence of Rick Perry over the weekend was instructively nostalgic. Here again was a governor declaring for the presidency and some very wise people cauti...
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Untrending PalinAug 16, 2011 5:02 am - The latest trend in the media world is “trending.” That is, monitoring what people are buzzing about and directing coverage accordingly. Just as the unspoken sometimes ...
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Clueless in WashingtonAug 16, 2011 5:02 am - It’s sobering that three-fourths of Americans, according to a new Washington Post poll, have little or no confidence in our elected leaders to solve the nation’s economi...
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The system’s not broken — it worksAug 15, 2011 4:00 am - Of all the endlessly repeated conventional wisdom in today’s Washington, the most lazy, stupid and ubiquitous is that our politics is broken. On the contrary. Our politi...
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Wisconsin’s message to big laborAug 14, 2011 4:00 am - Everyone is busy making inferences about Wisconsin’s recall vote and what it might mean for the 2012 presidential election. But more interesting is what the results say ...
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The mark of a tired nationAug 14, 2011 4:00 am - ORLANDO, Fla. — It is strange to contemplate the end of the world from The Happiest Place on Earth. Wall Street may be littered with broken dreams, the streets of London...
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I’m worried for our countryAug 13, 2011 12:00 am - The store window said 70 percent off. My son was getting a haircut across the street. I always enjoy chatting with the young woman from Boston who works there. Why not? ...
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Putting the power with the statesAug 12, 2011 4:00 am - Majorities in liberal states often back policies that most folks in conservative states abhor — and vice versa. The difficulty of reaching accord among warring but heart...