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- Blogs, Bleader Sep 8, 2016
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The media's election coverage is better than some pundits think
Pundits have convinced themselves that Americans are blind to the dangers of the election and that the media is to blame.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 1, 2015
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Should prostitution be less illegal—or more?
An argument against prostitution in the New Republic is mangled by a weak sentence.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 12, 2015
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Reason has serious shortcomings in the war between thought and belief
A war between thought and belief is not a war of ideas.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 24, 2014
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Did Obama just undermine democracy?
Immigration, tyranny, and politics as usual
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 3, 2014
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The choice: Rauner, Quinn, or a 24-hour drunk?
Choosing a governor in Illinois
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 15, 2013
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Should Obamacare have been left to the states?
Steve Chapman's Tribune column offers a strong argument, except for the comparison it doesn't draw.
- Columns & Opinion, On Media Oct 22, 2013
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Our ignorance of our enemies might not be bliss, but it's close enough
Akbar Ahmed's new book, The Thistle and the Drone: How America's War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam, exposes a subtlety and complexity that ought to matter more.
- Columns & Opinion, On Media Sep 24, 2013
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The press has been as hard on Obama's stance on Syria as the public
But a couple of the president's most persistent local critics have showed him unexpected love.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 10, 2013
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Nobody's screaming! The muted debate over Syria
A survey of the pundits' views
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 18, 2013
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Where are the editorial cartoonists who take the side of the NSA?
Editorial cartoonists take one side in the NSA scandal.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 10, 2013
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Chicago Tribune writers engage federal surveillance programs
John Kass, Clarence Page, and Steve Chapman all chime in.
- Blogs, Bleader May 1, 2013
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Will two too many Kochs spoil the Tribune?
If the Koch brothers buy the Tribune Company, then what?
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 27, 2012
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After-birth abortion flap arrives at the Chicago Tribune
After-birth abortion flap finally hits the Tribune
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 28, 2009
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The Cambridge confrontation: seeking the meaning
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 21, 2008
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Fighting and drinking
The Sun-Times thinks 18-year-olds are old enough to drink but the drinking age should be 19; the Tribune's Steve Chapman disagrees and makes a better argument.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 4, 2008
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Celebrating the 2nd on the 4th
If you're troubled by what the Supreme Court just had to say about gun laws, read some libertarians.
- Blogs, Bleader May 19, 2008
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Gay marriage? Would never be too soon?
Trib columnists Steve Chapman and Dennis Byrne scold the California Supreme Court for its gay marriage ruling.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 28, 2007
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Just as we suspected!
An imperfect Media Matters survey finds that a lot more conservatives than progressives show up in the nation's newspapers.
