Articles filed under Commentary
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Syndicated columnist Michael Barone: COVID only accelerated the blue state exodusJan 03, 2023 12:00 am - Where are Americans moving? And where, to make things more specific, have Americans been moving since the sudden onset of COVID lockdowns? Answers to these questions com...
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Syndicated columnist Marc Munroe Dion: On the way into the drugstore, I ejected the stump of a cigar from my mouth and put it out with the heel of my shoe.Jan 03, 2023 12:00 am - On the way into the drugstore, I ejected the stump of a cigar from my mouth and put it out with the heel of my shoe. These days, smoking in a store is as bad as smoking ...
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Cook County government has never been more diverseJan 02, 2023 10:00 pm - November was a historic month, locally and nationally. I became the first openly-LGBTQ commissioner to be reelected. Anthony Quezada became the first openly gay Latino t...
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Guest Columnist Arthur I. Cyr: President Zelenskyy holds a strong handJan 02, 2023 12:00 am - President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine ended 2022 in a strong and highly visible manner. On Dec. 21, he addressed both houses of the United States Congress and receive...
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Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich: The trouble with IsraelJan 01, 2023 12:00 am - The trouble with Israel is very simple. It's a democracy. They elect their own leaders. Not ones I'd vote for. They may sometimes feel the same way about us. So no, I do...
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Syndicated columnist Byron York: For Jan. 6 committee, time for transparency is running outJan 01, 2023 12:00 am - Republicans take control of the House of Representatives this week. When that happens, the Jan. 6 committee, with all its members selected by outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelo...
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Columnist Lee Hamilton: What the elections tell usDec 30, 2022 12:00 am - There's great uncertainty on Capitol Hill these days, as ambitious politicians maneuver for advantage in the newly reshaped House and the Senate reckons with the afterma...
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Syndicated columnist Jamie Stiehm: The House showed the Senate the way, time after timeDec 30, 2022 12:00 am - The People's House to Senate: hello, we are what American democracy - and demographics - look like. The upper Capitol chamber is more country, while the House is more ci...
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Syndicated columnist Michael Barone: Three surprises from 2022Dec 29, 2022 12:00 am - 2022 was a year full of surprises. Important things didn't work out as many people had expected on just about every point on the political spectrum. The prime example: U...
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Guest columnist Lucy Chang Evans: You're never too old to learn new thingsDec 28, 2022 12:00 am - If you can remember the 1986 movie "Back to School" with Rodney Dangerfield, you might be in my age group. In the movie, Dangerfield plays Thornton Mellon, a rich old ma...