Articles filed under Commentary
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Election results will come late this year. That's a good thing.Nov 03, 2020 12:00 am - We're just about to finish up this election, and a record-shattering 51 million votes have already been cast across the country. The devastation wrought by COVID-19 (and...
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The perils of political trifectasNov 03, 2020 12:00 am - If the final election returns, when they finally come in, match the current polls, Joe Biden's Democrats will win a trifecta: the White House and majorities in both hous...
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How we got the story: The changes required to cover voting in a unique election yearNov 02, 2020 1:00 am - This election season has been like no other, not only for voters but also for reporters covering them. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic and a particularly heated political cli...
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There's a man in your garageNov 01, 2020 12:00 am - I live in a nice neighborhood of single-family homes. There's a market down the block where you see a few homeless people, but the market always has rather burly guys wo...
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Swastika in Arlington Heights: A rabbi respondsNov 01, 2020 12:00 am - Like you, I was shocked to learn that someone scrawled a swastika on a building in our community. As a rabbi at the Chabad Jewish Center of Arlington Heights, with three...
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The Trump support you don't seeOct 29, 2020 1:00 am - WASHINGTON, PENNSYLVANIA - Everyone can see President Donald Trump's rallies. In the final days of the campaign, he is jetting from swing state to swing state, drawing b...
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Fighting the pandemic after the electionOct 28, 2020 1:00 am - We are in the midst of the most unusual election period in the history of our country. The unprecedented political polarization, in the middle of the worst pandemic in a...
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Big Journalism's laptop/dossier double standardOct 27, 2020 1:00 am - "60 Minutes" host Lesley Stahl probably figured her sit-down with President Donald Trump last week would be the usual fare. She would ask "tough questions," as she told ...
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Schools will benefit from vote for 'fairness'Oct 25, 2020 1:00 am - As a teacher who works in a well-funded suburban district in Illinois, I always joke with my CPS teacher friends that they should join the dark side and "come to the sub...
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Flat tax vote will shape the state's future - and not for the betterOct 25, 2020 1:00 am - Illinois voters will cast the most important vote of their lifetime on Nov. 3, one that will determine whether our state can make a full economic recovery following the ...