Articles filed under Commentary
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With Syria attack, Trump uses element of surprise - on his votersApr 13, 2017 1:00 am - Belligerence is in the air in Washington. President Trump is enjoying (extremely rare) bipartisan praise for a cruise-missile attack on Syria. There's tough talk from so...
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We need to safeguard the "public" in public officeApr 13, 2017 1:00 am - For the last few years, I've been keeping a file of clippings about the erosion of transparency and candor in government. I'm sorry to report that it's getting rather fu...
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Metastasizing academic cancerApr 12, 2017 1:00 am - The average American has little knowledge of the extent to which our institutions of higher learning have been infected with a spreading cancer. One aspect of that cance...
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The obfuscation gameApr 12, 2017 1:00 am - If there is one operative rule in this city's left-right paradigm, it is to shift the focus of any conversation that seems at risk of revealing something approximating t...
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Experience America at the time of the Great WarApr 09, 2017 1:00 am - "War is the health of the state. It automatically sets in motion throughout society those irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the governm...
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Was Trump's Syria strike a moral impulse or a policy change?Apr 09, 2017 1:00 am - It is either a turning point or a welcome aberration that Donald Trump found the cruelly extinguished lives of Syrian children to be compelling (or at least contributory...
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Trump's tough talk is cheap. Policy is harder.Apr 09, 2017 1:00 am - As international crises and foreign policy challenges mount, the world looks to the United States for a broad, consistent strategy that can be relied upon over time. But...
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Facts: Fergie in Schaumburg, Elgin's key role on TV seriesApr 08, 2017 2:00 pm - Hey, you learn something new every day. That hit me as I was reading Burt Constable's column on the 100th anniversary of World War I, the forgotten war. I, too, had forg...
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The business of governmentApr 07, 2017 1:00 am - Government, we have heard over and over since Donald J. Trump started campaigning for president, should be "run like a business." This, the argument goes, will put the n...
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Murnane: Spicer is not up to the jobApr 07, 2017 1:00 am - When I worked at, or for, The White House for Presidents Reagan and GHW Bush, among the most respected staff members were Larry Speakes, Marlin Fitzwater and Jim Brady, ...