Articles filed under Commentary
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Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich: Weinstein's disturbing opening statementNov 23, 2022 12:00 am - If she hadn't married the governor of California, she would've been "just another bimbo" who engaged in "transactional sex" to get ahead. Harvey Weinstein's lawyer, in a...
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Syndicated columnist Jamie Stiehm: Voters' verdict: end of the Trump eraNov 23, 2022 12:00 am - The country came to its senses Nov. 8, after a seven-year famine in our politics. The worst in our nature showed up in vulgar, violent and virulent former President Dona...
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Syndicated columnist Marc Munroe Dion: A topic more important than the presidentNov 22, 2022 12:00 am - Out there in Nebraska, where the air is clean and pure, up there in Minnesota, where they have those gosh darn cute accents, federal investigators found 30 teenagers wor...
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Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders: The GOP's challenge now: Make America Good AgainNov 22, 2022 12:00 am - "I don't own this job. Anybody who wants to run for it can feel free to do so," Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday. "I'm not in any way offended by ...
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Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich: Pull up a chair for coming GOP presidential campaign spectacleNov 20, 2022 12:00 am - A mere mortal would hang his head in shame. It should be lost on no one that this is the third election cycle - 2018, 2020 and now 2022 - that the Democrats have won by ...
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Syndicated columnist Byron York: Trump obsession clouds midterm analysisNov 18, 2022 12:00 am - By Byron York Remember when the conventional wisdom was that abortion would be a huge issue in the midterm elections? Then the election came, and a lot of data pointed t...
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Syndicated columnist Veronique de Rugy: Republicans need an economic growth agendaNov 18, 2022 12:00 am - After disappointing midterm election results for Republicans, many understandably pin blame on corrosive figures like former President Donald Trump. His losing record is...
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Daily Herald columnist Jim Slusher: Get ready for uplifting storytellingNov 17, 2022 12:00 am - Newspapers have an inherent appreciation for great storytelling, especially when the stories being told can uplift a community. Don Grossnickle, of Arlington Heights, ho...
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In religious freedom, Illinois cuts against partisan narrativesNov 17, 2022 12:00 am - As the United States reacts to the results of the midterm elections, politicians and media figures debate in the typical black-and-white, red-versus-blue fashion. Opport...
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Syndicated columnist Jamie Stiehm: Democracy gets a stress testNov 16, 2022 12:00 am - Amazingly, I slept well on Election eve and missed the eerie lunar eclipse. I awoke to the sound of schoolboys playing on a bright beautiful fall day. The capital city w...