Articles filed under Opinion
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Freedom to kill, permission to dieJun 19, 2016 1:00 am - It was inevitable that we would one day seek ways to kill ourselves with society's blessing. California recently joined four other states - Oregon, Washington, Vermont a...
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The great college coddlingJun 17, 2016 1:00 am - By Gene Lyons It's been 20 years since I started hearing alarming tales from a friend who supervised a day care for hospital employees' children. She said that for the f...
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Slusher: The role of eloquence in nudging the worldJun 16, 2016 1:00 am - One gropes, one claws, one prays for eloquence. For some of us, words are all we know, our only tool for taking the measure of an often beautiful, often miserable world....
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There he goes againJun 16, 2016 1:00 am - From Shanghai to Paris to Moscow, the world has been watching to see how the U.S. election is affected by the latest terrorist bloodbath on our soil, this time in the sh...
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Small acts begin the fight against coarsening cultureJun 15, 2016 1:00 am - So suddenly, it is June, and it seems that even the most modest bush is blooming its little head off. Despite the Metro being closed for a year for repairs (yes, a year!...
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Ralph Reed, all in for Trump, urges evangelicals to followJun 15, 2016 1:00 am - As Ralph Reed, the longtime evangelical leader, sees it, Donald Trump did two smart things in his appearance before Reed's Faith & Freedom Coalition Road to Majority con...
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Divided we mournJun 14, 2016 1:00 am - One of the manifold tragedies of the Orlando mass murder is how difficult it is for us to experience it and mourn it together. This killing lies at the intersection of ...
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The absurd availability of assault weaponsJun 14, 2016 1:00 am - A man walks into a nightclub with an AR-15. It is similar to the weapon I was trained on in the Army. It was designed for combat, to kill as many of the enemy as possibl...
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Government overreach threatens foundations of app communityJun 13, 2016 1:00 am - The legal battle surrounding the San Bernardino iPhone is no longer making headlines, but uncertainty about the future of data security is felt throughout Chicago's star...
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The party of Lincoln, RIP?Jun 12, 2016 1:00 am - Why such vehemence among Republican leaders in their condemnations of Donald Trump for questioning the objectivity of a federal judge based on his "Mexican heritage"? Th...