Articles filed under Commentary
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Clinging to a memory that still ‘tingles’Nov 21, 2013 3:00 pm - Except for three presidential icons — Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson — no president has been analyzed, interpreted and reinterpreted more than J...
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Steps toward a more educated Illinois workforceNov 21, 2013 4:00 am - More than 140,000 high-skilled jobs are unfilled within the state of Illinois because workers lack the necessary skills. With declining numbers of high school students a...
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The JFK in my mirrorNov 20, 2013 4:00 am - Sitting around one day with Ben Bradlee, then the executive editor of The Washington Post, a bunch of us were talking about John F. Kennedy — his achievements but also h...
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A rescuer for American conservatismNov 20, 2013 4:00 am - For those who expect and fear an irrepressible conflict between the Tea Party and the Republican establishment, Sen. Mike Lee of Utah is a hopeful anomaly. Should this a...
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We’ll be better off with ACA than without itNov 19, 2013 4:00 am - I can hear in my mind’s ear Barbra Streisand’s beautifully haunting song “The Way We Were.” It was a nostalgic, wistful song in a movie of the same name. But sometimes, ...
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Can this health care plan be saved?Nov 19, 2013 4:00 am - Let’s recap: If you like your insurance policy, you can keep it. No, wait. If you liked your policy, it was probably worthless anyway. Scratch that. If your junk policy ...
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The entrepreneurs of outrageNov 17, 2013 4:00 am - Among the saddest aspects of a political culture premised on the exaggeration and organization of grievances is the way policy debates get pulled into a vortex of parano...
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When it comes to sports coverage, you just can't winNov 17, 2013 4:00 am - OK, I'll admit I started the trouble. Opinion page czar Jim Slusher's weekly column was based on an embarrassing miscommunication among editors that resulted in no menti...
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Helping overweight kids get healthyNov 15, 2013 4:00 am - Forty-three percent of Chicago-area students are overweight. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 17 percent of children and adoles...
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News judgment, not bias, rules sports coverageNov 14, 2013 4:00 am - I’ve written a lot over the years in response to claims that the Daily Herald’s political biases color our news coverage, but there’s another claim of favoritism that do...