Articles filed under Commentary
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Understanding the Japanese-American experience 75 years after WWII's endAug 09, 2020 11:00 pm - As a Japanese-American, or American of Japanese Ancestry (AJA), my preferred term, I had been born in Chicago one year before the end of World War II. My father had immi...
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Ticket balancing may be risky for Joe BidenAug 09, 2020 1:00 am - If the presidential nominating process is the weakest part of our political system -- and, perhaps not coincidentally, one not referenced by the founders -- the vice pre...
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Lessons I learned at the end of the worldAug 09, 2020 1:00 am - By Marc Munroe Dion If it felt at all safe, I would finish this column and go out for a beer. How incredibly old-fashioned it sounds to talk about going out for a beer. ...
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The case for Karen Bass as Biden's V.P.Aug 07, 2020 1:00 am - About Karen Bass. Most people have never heard of her. But the people who have worked with her and know her best - Republicans and Democrats - have enormous respect for ...
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Atomic bombs in AugustAug 07, 2020 1:00 am - By Arthur I. Cyr Guest columnist "Why do we come to this place, to Hiroshima?" President Barack Obama asked that question publicly on his visit on May 27, 2016. He was t...
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Why the talk of canceling debates?Aug 06, 2020 1:00 am - There are three presidential debates scheduled before the Nov. 3 election. The first will be on Sept. 29 at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. The second will...
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How COVID-19 has affected visual side of our journalismAug 06, 2020 1:00 am - The novel coronavirus has affected photography in the Daily Herald in two important ways - how we take pictures and video and how we publish them. Most of us at the pape...
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Leftist effort to revise American historyAug 05, 2020 1:00 am - This column has been updated to remove a paragraph contained in the original version that included quotes as though they were legitimate though they came from a sati...
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The crucial call to 'walk with the wind'Aug 05, 2020 1:00 am - What a moment in America. On Thursday, three former U.S. presidents - George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama - walked into Atlanta's storied Ebenezer Baptist Chur...
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Honoring the fallenAug 04, 2020 1:00 am - Capping a week of deserved tributes, the funeral for Rep. John Lewis in Atlanta's historic Ebenezer Baptist Church brought me back a quarter-century to another funeral f...