Articles filed under Commentary
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Syndicated columnist Marc Dion: Watching Ukraine as a 'cat in the window'Mar 22, 2022 1:00 am - Writing columns about Ukraine makes me feel inferior to the people in the vests that say "PRESS" on the front. They're the reporters living and dying the story. I'm an o...
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Guest opinion: The hijab and India's slide away from open democracyMar 20, 2022 1:00 am - In the United states, wearing a hijab, or head cover, is, with rare exceptions, a non-issue. One can stand in the lobby of my hospital or at a quad of any educational in...
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Syndicated columnist Michael Barone: Ukraine suggests dangers of the Eurasian heartland axisMar 20, 2022 1:00 am - "Who rules the heartland rules the World Island. Who rules the World Island commands the world." So wrote the geography professor and occasional member of Parliament Hal...
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Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich: When it comes to blame, Putin's name won't be on the ballotMar 18, 2022 1:00 am - The average price of gasoline has jumped over $1 since Vladimir Putin moved his army to the border of Ukraine. One dollar. And change. Nationally, the average price of r...
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Blogger Eric Zorn: Without an apology, Foxx and Smollett can't hope to put case behind themMar 18, 2022 1:00 am - Jussie Smollett can restore his name and reputation only by seeking forgiveness and allowing time's eraser to do its work. A reversal of the actor's conviction on appeal...
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Syndicated columnist Byron York: Nine months from mid-terms, Democrats turn to word gamesMar 17, 2022 1:00 am - House Democrats recently went on their annual retreat in Philadelphia. The purpose was to discuss policy initiatives for the coming months and, most of all, to come up w...
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Daily Herald columnist Jim Slusher: A crisis for newspapers has produced benefits for readersMar 17, 2022 1:00 am - Political opponents have enjoyed taking Rahm Emanuel to task for his famous call to never let a crisis "go to waste," but the former Chicago mayor and current U.S. ambas...
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Guest opinion: Beware a Trojan Horse for nuclear bailoutsMar 16, 2022 1:00 am - With the nuclear reactor crisis emerging in Ukraine as a backdrop, a bill - HB 5589 - has been introduced in the Illinois legislature that would remove a decades-old mor...
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Syndicated columnist: Long COVID and our trust in governmentMar 16, 2022 1:00 am - As a country, we are suffering from a severe case of long COVID. I don't mean the lingering physical symptoms, awful as they sometimes are. I mean what it has done to ou...
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Syndicated columnist Marc Dion: The junkie's and the driver's lament: You gotta have somethin'Mar 15, 2022 1:00 am - Where I live, it's impossible to get heroin that isn't laced with fentanyl. In fact, most of what is sold as heroin is fentanyl. If you use it as directed, fentanyl kill...