Articles filed under Politics
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Cleaning out corruption goes beyond ousting MadiganNov 30, 2020 12:00 am - The most powerful state legislative leader in the country has been running Illinois for more than three decades - but his reign may be coming to an end. House Speaker Mi...
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Editorial: The reproachment of Dianne FeinsteinNov 28, 2020 1:00 pm - Amid all the understandable buzz about whether President Donald Trump would concede the election to Joe Biden, the country paid more attention to the apparent hair color...
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Major step forward by Asian nationsNov 27, 2020 12:00 am - A comprehensive new trade agreement among the nations of East and Southeast Asia promises greatly to increase production in the vast region, and in consequence benefit t...
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What next for Trump's legal team?Nov 27, 2020 12:00 am - The Trump campaign's top lawyers - Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis - went into last weekend on the offensive. On Thursday, they held a news conference vowing t...
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The refreshment of thanksgiving in a wretched yearNov 26, 2020 12:00 am - In this most wretched among wretched years, I am again confronted with the face of death and the limits of acceptability. Normally on Thanksgiving Day, I devote this col...
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Discrimination and prejudiceNov 26, 2020 12:00 am - Some of the confusion in thinking about matters of race stems from the ambiguity in the terms that we use. I am going to take a stab at suggesting operational definition...
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Celebrating statesmanship in Illinois can help bridge the divisions in the Prairie StateNov 25, 2020 12:00 am - As a protracted and divisive political campaign season draws to a close, America is a nation in which partisan cleavages appear sharper than at any time in recent memory...
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Editorial: Why do we believe conspiracy theories?Nov 25, 2020 12:00 am - Those of us old enough to have been around for the heyday of the Beatles remember how richly the rumor had been embraced that Paul McCartney was dead and how widely it h...
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Trump not the only one who needs to be drained from the swampNov 25, 2020 12:00 am - This is getting absolutely ridiculous. Rudy Giuliani's money grab. The utter waste of resources, all of it aimed at stopping a state from certifying election results tha...
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The Biden-Harris administration should crack down on COVID snake-oil sellersNov 24, 2020 12:00 am - The election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris should reverse the Trump Administration's "anything goes" approach to COVID-19 treatments - and that would be good news for A...