Articles filed under Commentary
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Partisan purity is derailing our countryJan 26, 2020 12:00 am - We all have moments that stick with us forever, crystallizing our view of something we've long cared about. Here's one of mine, from several years ago: then Sen. Jim DeM...
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Republicans may not want it, but Americans are watchingJan 24, 2020 12:00 am - It is my habit, and my ethical obligation, to disclose a fact of my marriage when failing to do so could mislead you or diminish your trust in me. Circumstances and sub...
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As trial begins, the White House strikes backJan 24, 2020 12:00 am - "Trump has no defense at all," Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe, an influential figure among impeachment Democrats, tweeted recently. "The case is uncontested," Demo...
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Diversity and inclusion insanityJan 23, 2020 12:00 am - It's nearly impossible to have even a short conversation with a college administrator, politician or chief executive without the words diversity and inclusion dropping f...
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'Exit option' complicates picture for Illinois pension reformJan 23, 2020 12:00 am - Union opposition to proposed pension reforms have sparked a new wave of protests in France, a little more than a year after the onset of the "yellow vest" protest moveme...
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Warren, gender politics and the refusal to shake handsJan 22, 2020 12:00 am - What a coincidence. With less than three weeks to go until the Iowa caucuses, we suddenly learn about a meeting that took place a year ago, with only two people in the r...
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Legislative inquiry needed in state's lobbyist email scandalJan 22, 2020 12:00 am - Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan doesn't know anything about his lobbyist buddy's appalling 2012 email advocating on behalf of a politically connected worker who k...
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In defense of IowaJan 21, 2020 12:00 am - We have reached that time in every presidential nominating year when distinguished, national opinion leaders beat up on Iowa and that admirable state's influential role ...
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Senate appears set to abdicate key role the founders intendedJan 21, 2020 12:00 am - The Senate is in danger of a failure of epic proportions in the upcoming impeachment trial. Regardless of whether or not senators vote to impeach President Trump, how th...
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On Martin Luther King Day 2020, the question that remainsJan 20, 2020 12:00 am - So many years have come to pass with many related events long since forgotten; but some memories never fade away. I will always remember the day Dr. King was assassina...