Articles filed under Commentary
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High schooler's plea to end pressure strikes chord with allMay 20, 2017 2:00 pm - Pressure. Adults everywhere feel it to some degree. In our careers. In our personal lives. Likely both. And many would argue it starts the day a kid walks through the do...
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Trump's compulsive talk and the incomplete story leaks tellMay 19, 2017 1:00 am - One thing we've learned the past several weeks is to ignore the White House and wait for Donald Trump to spill the beans. Invariably, the president contradicts statemen...
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Montenegro looks West, away from MoscowMay 19, 2017 1:00 am - By Georgie Anne Geyer Often enough through history, while the international community focuses on the huge problems it faces, it's easy to overlook important small places...
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It's critics who can halt 'assault' on our institutions from withinMay 18, 2017 1:00 am - James R. Clapper Jr., the former director of National Intelligence, told CNN that "our institutions are under assault internally." "Internally, from the president?" aske...
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Strange fruit, 2017May 18, 2017 1:00 am - Please, somebody tell these boys it's 2017. Last weekend, several dozen white people, most of them male and all of them loud, swarmed Lee Park in Charlottesville, Virgin...
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On Capitol Hill, growing frustration with FBI secrecy about Russia probeMay 17, 2017 1:00 am - Calls for a special prosecutor to investigate the Russia-Trump affair have multiplied in the days since President Trump fired FBI director James Comey. Almost invariably...
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Sheer lunacy on campusMay 17, 2017 1:00 am - Parents, taxpayers and donors have little idea of the levels of lunacy, evil and lawlessness that have become features of many of today's institutions of higher learning...
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Feeling aggrieved, evangelicals see Trump as a defenderMay 16, 2017 1:00 am - Even in an era of marriage diversity, it remains the most unlikely match: Donald Trump and his loyal evangelical base. In the compulsively transgressive, foul-mouthed, l...
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The Comey firing reminds us of a bigger dangerMay 16, 2017 1:00 am - By Fareed Zakaria I have tried to evaluate Donald Trump's presidency fairly. I've praised him when he has appointed competent people to high office and expressed support...
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Education burdened by unnecessary administration costsMay 15, 2017 1:00 am - Administrators have taken over education. Between 1992 and 2009, the number of district administrators grew by 36 percent in Illinois. That is 2.5 times faster than the ...