Articles filed under Politics
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Trump's China policy: incoherent, value-freeAug 16, 2019 1:00 am - A concern for human rights and democracy has often been seen as an add-on to our country's foreign policy, an attractive veneer over the usual realpolitik. But President...
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China does not have the upper hand in Hong Kong. Trump does.Aug 16, 2019 1:00 am - By Marc A. Thiessen President Donald Trump has warned China that it must respond "humanely" to the protests in Hong Kong if it wants a trade deal, for the first time sug...
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Constable: Are you there, God? It's us, Americans praying for smiteAug 15, 2019 5:30 am - With the great differences of opinion among people in the United States, the political divide in this nation seems almost biblical. So, is it OK to pray for God to smite...
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Like it or not, age will be an issue in 2020 presidential campaignAug 15, 2019 1:00 am - Here are the ages that the top presidential candidates will be on Inauguration Day, 2021: Bernie Sanders, 79; Joe Biden, 78; Donald Trump, 74; and Elizabeth Warren, 71. ...
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How should Americans engage globally?Aug 15, 2019 1:00 am - By Lee H. Hamilton I've been struck recently by news coverage of climate change and humans' degradation of the planet. Two opposing themes keep appearing. One is the sen...
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Historians bash Cuccinelli's revised Statue of Liberty poemAug 14, 2019 1:00 am - Annie Polland had an immediate thought after she heard Ken Cuccinelli's revision of the famous poem inscribed on the Statue of Liberty: Her sixth-grade students seemed t...
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Three ways Boris Johnson could become Britain's shortest-serving prime ministerAug 14, 2019 1:00 am - LONDON - Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been in office less than a month, and already Britain's chattering classes are talking about his demise. Johnson has promised t...
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How important is today's racial discrimination?Aug 14, 2019 1:00 am - See the text of Williams' column from today's Daily Herald here: ...
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The land of the free and the home of the rent-seekersAug 14, 2019 1:00 am - Given its surplus of violence and scarcity of resources, Chicago surely has bigger things to worry about than the menace, as the city sees it, of Laura Pekarik's cupcake...
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Editorial: The state's test of government consolidation in McHenry County could be just the startAug 14, 2019 1:00 am - Rank-and-file lawmakers like to take popular positions on big issues the public cares about — think Fair Maps, for instance — but they're often slow to take initiative w...