Articles filed under Politics
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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...
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Investor behind Illinois bond suit made short bet tied to case, funds claimAug 13, 2019 1:00 am - A hedge fund that filed a lawsuit seeking to have $14.3 billion of Illinois bonds invalidated in court stands to reap enormous profit if the case succeeds and the state ...
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By spreading conspiracy theories, Trump undermines a belief in truth itselfAug 13, 2019 1:00 am - President Donald Trump will do just about anything to get his daily, hypodermic fix of attention, including the spread of racist tropes and conspiracy theories. And no, ...
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Kashmir citizens must resolve region's statusAug 13, 2019 1:00 am - The people of India and Pakistan share many things in common. The official language of India (Hindi) and Pakistan (Urdu) have only dialectal and written differences and ...