Articles filed under Politics
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Rotten education isn't preordainedMay 20, 2020 1:00 am - Black politicians, civil rights leaders and their white liberal advocates have little or no interest in doing anything effective to deal with what's no less than an educ...
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How inspectors general protect taxpayers, government integrityMay 20, 2020 1:00 am - Thirty years ago, I worked for an ambassador - a political appointee from the business world - who one night entertained a group of high-level contacts at an upscale res...
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Stigma and mental health in the time of coronavirusMay 19, 2020 1:00 am - What we are experiencing right now is scary and confusing. It is temporarily and permanently life changing. It brings to light the range of humanity's character, the bes...
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Bill Barr, champion of justiceMay 19, 2020 1:00 am - "Governments that use the enormous power of law enforcement to punish their enemies and reward their allies are not constitutional republics; they are autocracies," note...
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Amid COVID-19, we must solve the growing threat from extreme weatherMay 18, 2020 1:00 am - The COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic effect on the lives of billions of people around the world. In Illinois alone, nearly 4,000 people have died and more than one m...
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Coronavirus blame game continues to spreadMay 17, 2020 1:00 am - The coronavirus did apparently originate in China. Now President Donald Trump wants to punish that country for its role in letting the virus spread to the United States....
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Who sent COVID-19 positive patients into nursing homes?May 17, 2020 1:00 am - On a multicountry trip to South America, President Ronald Reagan couldn't restrain himself from the inane observation that every tourist finds himself saying about such ...
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Editorial: Pritzker must rally support behind pandemic planMay 16, 2020 3:00 pm - Living and working as we do in Chicago's suburbs, as you do, we are sympathetic to Gov. J.B. Pritzker's emergency directive and to the state's conservative economic reop...
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Facebook is quietly helping to set up a new pro-tech advocacy group to battle WashingtonMay 16, 2020 6:00 am - Facebook is working behind the scenes to help launch a new political advocacy group that would combat U.S. lawmakers and regulators trying to rein in the tech industry, ...
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As coronavirus rolls on, Republicans hit 'pause' on new aidMay 14, 2020 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Businesses are going belly up, tens of millions have been laid off and, by some measures, the U.S. seems headed for another Great Depression. But Republican...