Articles filed under Commentary
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Let's erect monuments to the best among usAug 25, 2017 1:00 am - In the mid-'90s, after the Soviet Union collapsed, I went to an old park in Moscow where the Russians had deposited pieces of the monuments of the "great" communist lead...
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Trump signs on to the forever war in AfghanistanAug 25, 2017 1:00 am - There is surely no greater sign of the bankruptcy of American foreign policy than its Afghanistan policy. After 15 years of war and the deployment of hundreds of thousan...
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Slusher: Donald Trump, Billy Squier and thoughts on honest reportingAug 24, 2017 1:00 am - Why is President Donald Trump reminding me of an experience involving classic rocker Billy Squier, and can the connection teach us something about "fake news"? Let's see...
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'America First' is a gathering moral and strategic disasterAug 23, 2017 1:00 am - We are seeing the sad effects of President Trump's renunciation of moral leadership on America politics and culture - the waning of civility, idealism and respect, and t...
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GOP must start sending president message he's losing party's supportAug 22, 2017 1:00 am - It's time for Republicans to pull the plug on Donald Trump. While some of his goals are the goals of the majority of Republicans in the U.S., many - perhaps most - of hi...
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The center is not holdingAug 22, 2017 1:00 am - By Georgie Anne Geyer Many years ago, when Chile was on the verge of civil war, a Belgian Jesuit priest named Father Roger Vekemans impressed me with his unsentimental c...
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America's elites respond to Trump with cowardiceAug 20, 2017 1:00 am - Much of America has reacted swiftly and strongly to Donald Trump's grotesque suggestion that there is a moral equivalence between the white supremacists who converged la...
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World is watching America's response to hate speechAug 20, 2017 1:00 am - The events in Charlottesville, Virginia, continue to reverberate, but are seen as a domestic political issue. How do we reconcile Americans' right to assemble and to eng...
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Davis: Chuck Fulco, our awesome total eclipse expertAug 19, 2017 2:00 pm - Not that I know many eclipse experts, but in my book, Chuck Fulco is the rock star of the genre. As evidence, I offer the following: • He's 55 years old, and has been ca...
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Governor's school-funding reform plan is fatally flawedAug 18, 2017 1:00 am - Illinois' school funding system consistently ranks as one of the most inequitable and least adequate in America. In virtually every national study on the subject, Illino...