Articles filed under Commentary
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Many Republicans do have a sense of humorMay 13, 2020 1:00 am - An American politician can help herself politically by being able to believably use self-deprecating humor, which sends a clear message: "I am not pompously self-importa...
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Let's not waste a crisisMay 13, 2020 1:00 am - Former Barack Obama adviser Rahm Emanuel, during a recent interview, reminded us of his 2008 financial crisis quotation, "Never allow a crisis to go to waste." The COVID...
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Federal coronavirus aid to states is needed to protect taxpayersMay 12, 2020 1:00 am - No matter how you perceive the president's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, one thing is undeniable: the Trump Administration has turned sending mixed signals into an ...
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Commentary: Businesses struggling for air in abusive legal climateMay 12, 2020 1:00 am - If you live in Illinois, go ahead and subtract $761.81 from your annual salary. No, this is not an increase to Social Security, a higher 401(k) contribution, or even a n...
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Public school closures may be a big mistakeMay 12, 2020 1:00 am - Decades from now, historians will ask themselves why most of America's governors shuttered public schools for months because of the coronavirus outbreak. Worse, America'...
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A Ramadan to rememberMay 11, 2020 1:00 am - Everyone is sifting lessons from the current crisis, and without a doubt, no one is going to forget 2020. Every family has a story to tell about a postponed wedding, vir...
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Trump trolling for fun and profitMay 10, 2020 1:00 am - In 2003, during the George W. Bush administration, the columnist Charles Krauthammer coined the phrase "Bush Derangement Syndrome" to refer to some of the president's mo...
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Lessons from the pandemic for a homebound physicianMay 10, 2020 1:00 am - I am not one of the physicians who are on the front lines in the COVID-19 battle. It is with a sense of guilt and relief that I observe those who are. I am mostly stayi...
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After three years, who are we now?May 08, 2020 1:00 am - A week after Donald Trump was elected president, writer and scholar Sarah Kendzior, who had predicted in 2015 that he would win, wrote a public letter to the American pu...
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We must protect our elections against coronavirusMay 08, 2020 1:00 am - By Mike Quigley and Nita M. Lowey Guest columnists If you had asked us a year ago to identify threats to the 2020 election, we would have said Russian interference and s...