Articles filed under Politics
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Investigate women's claims, but don't simply assume all are trueNov 02, 2021 1:00 am - "Billionaire Being Investigated for Rape ..." I plead guilty. If I didn't know better, I would just assume that the billionaire being investigated must be guilty. I migh...
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Fighting illiberalism in higher educationNov 02, 2021 1:00 am - I consider my children to be extraordinarily lucky to be born and live in the United States. When I moved here from France in 1999, I believed that, while far from perfe...
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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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North Barrington Democrat announces campaign for state SenateNov 01, 2021 1:00 am - Maria Peterson, a Democrat from North Barrington, announced Monday she will run for the 26th District state Senate seat currently held by Senate Republican Leader Dan Mc...
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Pritzker calls gun violence a public health crisis, lays out prevention approachNov 01, 2021 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed an executive order Monday classifying ongoing gun violence in Illinois as a public health crisis and announced his intent to incl...
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Constable: On the night Cubs won the World Series 5 years ago, future seemed full of joyNov 01, 2021 1:00 am - Five years ago tomorrow night, I was writing a column on deadline about the very-much-in-doubt Game 7 of the 2016 World Series when my phone rang. "Oh, Burt," my 89-year...
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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...