Articles filed under Commentary
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Davis: The long, strange trip of reporting PARCC resultsDec 12, 2015 1:00 pm - Tim Broderick, our editor of data journalism and graphics, got the word about 4 p.m. Wednesday. The final release of state report card info - how our children fared on a...
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Explorers saddened to be told they're no longer needed in Fox LakeDec 10, 2015 10:00 pm - Last week, the Fox Lake Explorers and their parents met with the Fox Lake Police Department and the Mayor Donny Schmidt. Previously, the last meeting of the year has alw...
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The coming battle over GuantanamoDec 10, 2015 12:00 am - Congress recently forbade President Obama from bringing Guantanamo inmates to the United States, or even preparing a place in the U.S. to which the terrorist prisoners m...
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Opposition victory rocks VenezuelaDec 10, 2015 12:00 am - As it happened, I was present as a journalist at the birth of a new model for Latin America. It was an exciting time, that fall of 1998. Exactly a week before the presid...
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Only things missing in Obama strategy: urgency, leadershipDec 09, 2015 12:00 am - In his address to the nation on terrorism, President Obama warned against "tough talk." On this, at least, no one can accuse him of hypocrisy. In the aftermath of recen...
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Personalizing the politics of gunsDec 09, 2015 12:00 am - Years ago, I rushed up the stairs to the Tobacco Institute in Washington and confronted the people working there: How could you? How could you lie to us about the danger...
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Combat is no place to be politically correctDec 08, 2015 12:00 am - As the Islamic State amped up attacks around the world, the Pentagon responded by bravely announcing that American women will now be put in direct ground combat. Whereu...
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The empty case for progressive taxationDec 08, 2015 12:00 am - Progressives are increasingly preoccupied with income inequality, and their current hero, Sen. Bernie Sanders, favors increasing the tax system's progressivity. So, in t...
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Camps are not the solution to the Syrian refugee crisisDec 07, 2015 12:00 am - "I used to live like a king." This is how Ahmed welcomed our team into his tiny apartment. A Syrian refugee, Ahmed's life began to crumble when the Syrian uprising began...
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Taking stock of a weird race for presidentDec 06, 2015 12:00 am - A Presidential election year without an incumbent running for a second term often produces unusual and even strange politics, but the upcoming 2016 campaign may top the ...