Articles filed under Opinion
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A fair assessment of politics for 2014Aug 18, 2013 5:00 am - The Illinois State Fair in Springfield is a grand event for a state whose population is tilting quickly northeast to metropolitan Chicagoland. Its main draw is agricultu...
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Rhetoric vs. reality for RepublicansAug 15, 2013 5:00 am - So what’s it going to be for GOP hotheads in Congress this fall? A soul-satisfying episode of adolescent nihilism culminating in a government shutdown and yet another de...
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Editorial sought to challenge a tired phraseAug 15, 2013 5:00 am - I got my first personal introduction to what has come to be known as NIMBY syndrome in Clinton, Iowa, back in the 1970s. As a cub reporter, I attended meeting after emot...
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Hillary’s search for ‘an emphatic now’Aug 14, 2013 5:00 am - Hillary Clinton has gone to Togo. Joe Biden is going to Iowa. Let us now explicate. The vice president (that’s Biden) is scheduled in September to attend Sen. Tom Harkin...
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How a true democracy operatesAug 12, 2013 9:46 am - Cokie’s mother, Lindy Claiborne Boggs, was born on a plantation in the segregated South before women could vote. When she died last week at 97, Barack and Michelle Obama...
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America’s bubble of complacencyAug 12, 2013 9:34 am - The impending replacement of the chairman of the Federal Reserve has taken on elements of a political campaign, with members of Congress endorsing candidates and financi...
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To have or have not — a babyAug 12, 2013 8:47 am - The media-created mommy wars haven’t just jumped the shark and entered the realm of “Sharknado.” Where women once debated ways to balance family-and-career — a hyphenate...
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Changes in the family never easy, even in businessAug 11, 2013 5:00 am - When The Washington Post Writers Group came courting several years ago, inviting me to join the company’s syndicate, I remember well the pitch: We’re a family. By then I...
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A ‘people’s contest’ for fair opportunityAug 09, 2013 5:00 am - With the Civil War raging, Abraham Lincoln addressed the U.S. Congress on July 4, 1861, and talked about the stakes involved: “This is essentially a people’s contest. O...
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A liberal counterattack on ObamacareAug 08, 2013 5:00 am - While Republicans argue among themselves over what to do about Obamacare — Defund it? Delay it? Give up the fight to repeal it? — a coalition of wealthy and determined l...