Articles filed under Politics
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The bills that failed during the legislature's short sessionJan 18, 2021 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - The 101st Illinois General Assembly took historic action by passing legislation to end cash bail prior to electing a Black House speaker for the first time...
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On this MLK Day, we must acknowledge the racial injustices that remainJan 18, 2021 12:00 am - Violent police killings of Black people last year exposed the deep, festering wounds of racism in America. The callous murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard ...
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India's experience has lessons for U.S. democracyJan 17, 2021 12:00 am - The frenzied mob trashing the Capitol reminded me instantly of the mob that destroyed a historic mosque, called the Babri Masjid, in the northern Indian city of Ayodhya,...
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Schakowsky will ask House to censure downstate representative over Hitler remarksJan 17, 2021 12:00 am - U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky said she plans to introduce a measure in the U.S. House to censure downstate Rep. Mary Miller for comments she made about Adolf Hitler outside t...
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Things I never told Sheldon AdelsonJan 17, 2021 12:00 am - The knives were out for me in January 2017 when I arrived in Washington as the White House correspondent for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. You see, I worked for what sco...
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Stava-Murray restores Facebook page that went dark after 'viral' post on police billJan 15, 2021 12:00 am - A Facebook page maintained by Downers Grove Democratic state Rep. Anne Stava-Murray as a forum for her legislative work that went dark Thursday night has been reactivate...
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Don't hate the political players; hate the political gameJan 15, 2021 12:00 am - Many Americans are very upset that President-elect Joe Biden will replace President Donald Trump. For most of them, it's not that they will miss Trump's unconventional a...
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The Radicalization of Kevin Greeson, ex-Obama supporter who died backing Trump at CapitolJan 14, 2021 10:00 pm - ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. In 2009, Kevin G...
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Stars return to inauguration, with J.Lo, Lady Gaga set to performJan 14, 2021 10:00 pm - The A-list is back. How A-list? Try Lady Gaga and J. Lo. Inauguration officials announced on Thursday that the glittery duo would appear in person on Jan. 20, with Gaga ...
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To persuade is the highest goal of newspaper editorialsJan 13, 2021 10:00 pm - By Jim Slusher Persuasion has been called a "gentle art." More often, people approach it with a fiery hammer. Gentility may not be exactly what we need in these troubled...