Articles filed under Commentary
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Pulling back the curtain: How we tried to define objectivityNov 01, 2021 5:30 am - How do we define objectivity? We journalists have liked to say, if thinking only quickly about it, that we're objective. And we certainly have been told that we should b...
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Why remap Illinois when the redrawn map is even worse?Oct 31, 2021 1:00 am - By Sheldon H. Jacobson Guest columnist The Illinois remapping committee posted a blatantly gerrymandered Illinois congressional map on Oct. 15. Our research gr...
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A second look led to greater understandingOct 31, 2021 1:00 am - As a teenager, I frequently walked to St. Stephen Cemetery after school to sit by my mom's headstone. She died in a car accident when I was seven, and I didn't confront ...
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Note to Biden: Love the Senate lessOct 29, 2021 1:00 am - Two senators should not be pushing a president around on a signature package - legacy legislation called Build Back Better - as time ticks by. It does not play well. It ...
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Be wary of socialism's slippery slopeOct 29, 2021 1:00 am - For years, progressives mocked anyone who warned that the Democratic Party's move leftward would produce government officials who might push actual socialist policies on...
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When an unpopular client tests a lawyer's friendship, dutyOct 28, 2021 1:00 am - Not again. I represented Fox News creator Roger Ailes five years ago. The New York Times called it "The Curious Case of Susan Estrich." I didn't consider it strange at a...
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When 'service to others' makes the front pageOct 28, 2021 1:00 am - When we think of how accomplishment is recognized in the news, certain topics probably leap immediately to mind. Like sports, for example, where new heroes rise and fal...
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Don't let Congress jeopardize Illinois's medical miraclesOct 27, 2021 1:00 am - COVID-19 brought with it not just sickness and death when it hit America early last year, but also great national gloom. In fact, when Dr. Anthony Fauci said at the time...
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Scene from a dark corner of the American DreamOct 27, 2021 1:00 am - You could say he fell in the middle of the store because the store is so small that nearly every part of it is in the middle. But the store is not in the middle of the b...
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Guest View: Bigger is not always better, and other thoughts on U.S. v EuropeOct 26, 2021 11:00 pm - I returned to the suburbs in August. It was my third time back to the U.S. this year. This time it was to drop off our son at university. The other two times were for ...