Politics News
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Like it or not, age will be an issue in 2020 presidential campaign
Aug 15, 2019 1:00 AM - Columnist Byron York: Here are the ages that the top presidential candidates will be on Inauguration Day, 2021: Bernie Sanders, 79; Joe Biden, 78; Donald Trump, 74; and Elizabeth Warren, 71.
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How should Americans engage globally?
Aug 15, 2019 1:00 AM - Columnist Lee Hamilton: I've been struck recently by news coverage of climate change and humans' degradation of the planet.
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Dorothy Brown won't seek re-election as Cook County circuit clerk
Aug 14, 2019 11:43 AM - Dorothy Brown, the longtime Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, has decided not to seek re-election next year.
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Three ways Boris Johnson could become Britain's shortest-serving prime minister
Aug 14, 2019 8:47 AM - Speculation is growing over a no-confidence vote, a snap election and possible intervention by the queen.
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Fact check: Trump's and Biden's dueling claims on criminal justice reform
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Historians bash Cuccinelli's revised Statue of Liberty poem
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Editorial: The state's test of government consolidation in McHenry County could be just the start
Aug 14, 2019 5:53 AM - In this editorial, the Daily Herald cheers a measure by state Rep. David McSweeney of Barrington Hills that enables McHenry County residents to go to referendum to dissolve township governments. -
How important is today's racial discrimination?
Aug 14, 2019 1:00 AM - Columnist Walter E. Williams: There is discrimination of all sorts, and that includes racial discrimination.
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The land of the free and the home of the rent-seekers
Aug 14, 2019 1:00 AM - Columnist George Will: Given its surplus of violence and scarcity of resources, Chicago surely has bigger things to worry about than the menace, as the city sees it, of Laura Pekarik's cupcakes.
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Longtime lawmaker's son could face Stephens for state House seat
Aug 13, 2019 9:13 PM - A perennial candidate from Chicago's Northwest Side announced this week he will run as a Democrat for a state House seat his father held for more than three decades.
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