Articles filed under Commentary
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Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders: The outlook for CNN+ is not positiveApr 07, 2022 1:00 am - The CNN+ ad features former Fox News anchor Chris Wallace, who has a new CNN+ show, walking toward a camera. Wallace utters one sentence, "We have a lot to talk about." ...
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Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich: The new job numbers: A healthy economy?Apr 06, 2022 1:00 am - The United States added 431,000 new jobs last month, a sign, we are told, of how healthy the economy is. You could have fooled me. I'm not a numbers cruncher. I'm talkin...
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Violence on three levels: Hollywood, Washington, UkraineApr 06, 2022 1:00 am - Hollywood. Washington. Ukraine. Violence is breaking out all over, in places we thought we'd never see it: on the Academy Awards stage, in the Capitol and a war in Europ...
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Columnist Michael Barone: Turning away from excessive risk aversionApr 05, 2022 1:00 am - It feels like we're turning a corner. Since the beginning of the calendar year, a lot of things have changed. More importantly, a lot of minds have changed as well. The ...
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Online blogger Eric Zorn: On Columbus statues, Lightfoot picks a wound that had scabbed overApr 05, 2022 1:00 am - The city has - or had - moved on from the controversy over public honors to controversial Italian explorer Christopher Columbus. Mayor Lori Lightfoot removed and mothbal...
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Syndicated columnist Marc Munroe Dion: The difference between Alex Jones and real journalismApr 03, 2022 1:00 am - If he squints his eyes just a bit, tilts his head back slightly and sticks his jaw out just a little, Alex Jones can look defiant. Faced with a lawsuit, Jones folds up l...
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Guest columnist Sylvia Agaba: Tragedy in Sub-Saharan Africa needs America's help, tooApr 03, 2022 1:00 am - Even as confidence is shaken with Russia's relentless attacks on Ukrainian cities, the United States of America is demonstrating its solidarity with the Ukrainian people...
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Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich: Dinner at Madeleine Albright'sApr 01, 2022 1:00 am - When I first met Madeleine Albright in the early 1980s, she was still making dinner for the boys. The boys being the members of what we used to call the "priesthood," th...
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Guest columnists Madeleine Behr, Amanda Pyron: Victims' voices heard in law ending money bailApr 01, 2022 1:00 am - Throughout this year's legislative session, opponents of the Pretrial Fairness Act - a part of the more comprehensive SAFE-T Act - have used stories of sexual and domest...
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Daily Herald columnist Jim Slusher: Caring about every word has always been 'something to think about'Mar 31, 2022 1:00 am - Over the course of a long career, you form memories. Sometimes you want to share them just because they make you smile. Sometimes there is current value even beyond that...