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If you’re hearing my voice you’re probably a regular NPR listener. While I don’t have data to support this, I’m assuming that most of you vote on a pretty…
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Most people have heard the most famous line from Shakespeare’s The Tempest: “What’s past is prologue”. It’s often used to imply that history determines…
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In a Perspective broadcast a seeming lifetime ago - last year - I offered up a suggestion to the opposition party, which is eternally, almost comically…
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I’m a lifelong atheist, but I mean no disrespect when I ask, “What would Jesus do?”In the 1990s, conservative Christians -- often pointing fingers at Bill…
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The WNIJ Perspectives series provides a welcome platform for members of the community to weigh in on the topics of the day. Many of the Perspectives…
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This Thanksgiving we revisit two Perspectives from our archives in which the authors debate an age-old question: Which came first, the chicken or the egg?…
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Republicans win elections largely because they beat the pants off Democrats on branding and sloganeering. Have you heard the latest Democratic slogan?…
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Do I really need to point out that facts are true and “alternative facts” are lies? Real news is not fake and fake news is not real, though both exist. I…
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Public rallies in support of science will take place in Washington, Chicago and across the country on Earth Day. Despite current government actions to the…
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A bit more than a week ago, the New York Times ran an opinion piece on the impact of the ongoing budget crisis on public higher education in Illinois,…