Articles filed under Commentary
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Let's not waste a crisisMay 13, 2020 1:00 am - Former Barack Obama adviser Rahm Emanuel, during a recent interview, reminded us of his 2008 financial crisis quotation, "Never allow a crisis to go to waste." The COVID...
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Federal coronavirus aid to states is needed to protect taxpayersMay 12, 2020 1:00 am - No matter how you perceive the president's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, one thing is undeniable: the Trump Administration has turned sending mixed signals into an ...
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Commentary: Businesses struggling for air in abusive legal climateMay 12, 2020 1:00 am - If you live in Illinois, go ahead and subtract $761.81 from your annual salary. No, this is not an increase to Social Security, a higher 401(k) contribution, or even a n...
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Public school closures may be a big mistakeMay 12, 2020 1:00 am - Decades from now, historians will ask themselves why most of America's governors shuttered public schools for months because of the coronavirus outbreak. Worse, America'...
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A Ramadan to rememberMay 11, 2020 1:00 am - Everyone is sifting lessons from the current crisis, and without a doubt, no one is going to forget 2020. Every family has a story to tell about a postponed wedding, vir...
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Trump trolling for fun and profitMay 10, 2020 1:00 am - In 2003, during the George W. Bush administration, the columnist Charles Krauthammer coined the phrase "Bush Derangement Syndrome" to refer to some of the president's mo...
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Lessons from the pandemic for a homebound physicianMay 10, 2020 1:00 am - I am not one of the physicians who are on the front lines in the COVID-19 battle. It is with a sense of guilt and relief that I observe those who are. I am mostly stayi...
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After three years, who are we now?May 08, 2020 1:00 am - A week after Donald Trump was elected president, writer and scholar Sarah Kendzior, who had predicted in 2015 that he would win, wrote a public letter to the American pu...
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We must protect our elections against coronavirusMay 08, 2020 1:00 am - By Mike Quigley and Nita M. Lowey Guest columnists If you had asked us a year ago to identify threats to the 2020 election, we would have said Russian interference and s...
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Where is everyone going?May 07, 2020 1:00 am - I live in Los Angeles County, where new coronavirus cases are showing up as fast as anywhere in the country. We're on lockdown. We were the first state to be told to sta...