Articles filed under Commentary
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A (statistical) journal of the plague yearDec 29, 2021 12:00 am - As a Christmas present to statistics lovers, the Census Bureau has released its estimates of the population of the nation and the 50 states as of July 1, 2021. The Burea...
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Hello, no one can help youDec 29, 2021 12:00 am - "A supervisor will just write down your complaint and send a message. I just sent a message. There's no one you can talk to. There's no one anyone can talk to. The super...
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A cheap lamb for ChristmasDec 28, 2021 12:00 am - The part of the Christmas story that moves me the most is the babe lying in a stable among animals. Frowzy and drowsy, curious and accepting, the animals watch, shifting...
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'Try something': FDR's dictum and the child tax creditDec 28, 2021 12:00 am - How many of us, when approached on the street by a panhandler, have asked ourselves, "If I put a dollar in his cup, will he spend it on food or on alcohol or drugs?" The...
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Zorn: The long litany of Foxx falsehoods on SmollettDec 27, 2021 12:00 am - The vast understatement of Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx's admission that she "didn't handle (the Smollett case) well" in an October 2019 interview with Axios ca...
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Zorn: My entire family got COVID, and yours probably will, tooDec 26, 2021 12:00 am - COVID-19 recently ran wild through our family. My wife — the most careful of all of us about masking and distancing — was the first to test positive, followed rapidly by...
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Estrich: Home COVID-19 tests sound good, but are they?Dec 26, 2021 12:00 am - By Susan estrich If you've ever done a home pregnancy test, you know what it's like to look for a line that's not there. My problem with my first three home COVID-19 tes...
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Saunders: Vaccine shaming is not a solution to COVID-19 pandemicDec 24, 2021 12:00 am - Blaming the unvaccinated is the sharpest tool in President Joe Biden's shed, and that is not healthy for America. Consider Biden's address to the nation on COVID-19 from...
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Stiehm: After a rough year, New York offers the kindness of strangersDec 23, 2021 12:00 am - By Jamie Stiehm New York was full of kind strangers two weeks before Christmas, even as the omicron variant was coming to town. A police officer in the 14th Street subwa...
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Oberweis: Legislatures, not courts, should decide public policyDec 23, 2021 12:00 am - By Jim Oberweis Families across the country are feeling the pain of the high cost of goods and services this Christmas season as everything from the cost to prepare a Ch...