Articles filed under Commentary
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Looking for hope amidst a public education crisisOct 25, 2023 1:00 am - By Jessica A. Johnson Syndicated columnist The October report from the National Center for Education Statistics revealed some serious concerns regarding the 2023-24 acad...
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Americans learned a financial-crisis lesson. Washington did not.Oct 24, 2023 1:00 am - Congress and the Biden administration seem unaware that rising interest rates are about as "transitory" as they told us inflation would be - meaning, likely to be around...
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Hail to a chief: the president overrides the kindergartenOct 24, 2023 1:00 am - The narrative that President Joe Biden is too old to be president isn't holding up all that well, taking more than a few hits in recent months. Biden's arduous secret tr...
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Stereotyping justifies violence and keeps us from recognizing our shared humanityOct 23, 2023 1:00 am - The story of more than 40 beheaded Israeli babies may go down in history with the "weapons of mass destruction" and the "Iraqi soldiers stole incubator and left 22 babie...
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Time to stop appeasing terrorist IranOct 22, 2023 1:00 am - The 2020s are starting to look like the 1930s, as I wrote last week in the wake of Hamas' unprecedentedly vicious attack on Israel. Nations that embody, imperfectly but ...
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Taylor Swift should run everythingOct 22, 2023 1:00 am - As a culture, and as a republic, we should just give up and let Taylor Swift run everything. It's probably going to happen anyway, so we might as well get on her good si...
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For better or worse, jerky CEOs are the ones who change the worldOct 20, 2023 1:00 am - According to Forbes Magazine, Elon Musk, CEO of the electric car manufacturer Tesla, is the world's richest man with a net worth of over $250 billion. Tesla itself is th...
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Beware the propaganda lurking within the fog of warOct 20, 2023 1:00 am - In his 19th century treatise "On War," military strategist and historian Carl von Clausewitz offers this observation that followers of news about war in the 21st century...
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The sinking showboatOct 20, 2023 1:00 am - There is an element in the Republican Party that is completely at peace with losing elections. All of them: Races for the White House. Congress. The speakership. You nam...
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Illinois DCFS needs transformational change to end its cycle of failureOct 19, 2023 1:00 am - When Marc Smith was appointed director of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services in 2019, the Chicago Sun-Times Editorial Board warned that he would be ...