Articles filed under Commentary
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New plan will help ensure reliable powerAug 21, 2015 1:00 am - Keeping the lights on, safely and reliably, is Exelon's primary responsibility to customers. Part of that is planning ahead to make sure we have enough power to meet our...
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Slusher: Our goal: Not 'liberal,' not 'conservative' -- just stimulatingAug 20, 2015 1:00 am - The call I took this morning from a reader unhappy with one of our editorial cartoons could almost serve as a punctuation mark on the theme for today's column. The reade...
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Jeb Bush and the dangers of refighting the Iraq WarAug 20, 2015 1:00 am - Jeb Bush based his first major foreign policy address, delivered this month at the Reagan Library, on the classic Republican interpretation of the war in Iraq. Yes, mist...
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Expand, don't decrease, efforts on affordable child careAug 19, 2015 1:00 am - Most children under age 5 today are growing up with working mothers. But as a nation, we're doing far too little to help mothers care for their kids while they're at wor...
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Truman was right to use the bombAug 19, 2015 1:00 am - Should the United States apologize for the nuclear bombing of Japan at the very end of World War II? The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 70 years ago this month, kill...
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On having time - and the ability - to thinkAug 18, 2015 1:00 am - It is that sane and glorious time when the nation's capital dispenses its human cargo to places of origin and locations of respite. "I don't know why everyone leaves," ...
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Hunting for a miracle on global warmingAug 18, 2015 1:00 am - In recognition that Internet questionnaires get more eyeballs than earnest columns on energy policy, here is today's quiz on obscure presidential history: When President...
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Seamless pathways critical to cutting college costsAug 17, 2015 1:00 am - In 1962, my identical twin brother Steve and I turned 12. It was a big day around the Ender household. Dad took us to lunch and a movie and we came home to a surprise pa...
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Powerful message from an imperfect messengerAug 16, 2015 1:00 am - Earlier this month, billionaire Charles Koch had a surprising message: In a speech to his fellow conservatives, he said politicians must end taxpayer-funded subsidies an...
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Blame dysfunction on politicians' refusal to meet state's promisesAug 14, 2015 1:00 am - What's the most disturbing aspect of the budget stalemate in Springfield? Surprisingly, it's not all the frustrating rhetorical posturing that elevates political advanta...