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2018年3月28日 星期三

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March 28, 2018

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Fighting Words

Another time bomb for Chicago taxpayers

Tuesday, Mar 27

Bad news for taxpayers: Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund says it is $1 billion deeper in the hole than before. Here's what that means for you.

Emanuel, Madigan and a new CPD

By Sept. 1, Attorney General Lisa Madigan and Mayor Rahm Emanuel will submit a proposed consent decree — the legally binding framework for overhauling the Chicago Police Department. Will these reforms stick?

How Stormy Daniels spanked Trump at his own game

Stormy Daniels has become President Donald Trump's kryptonite, writes Clarence Page. She wins where Trump's political opponents stumbled — the shame game.

John Paul Stevens is wrong. Trying to repeal the Second Amendment would be a pointless mistake.

Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens' proposal to repeal the Second Amendment is wrong on both substantive and political grounds, writes Steve Chapman.

So Facebook is scouring your data. So what?

Users pay for free online programs, applications and services with their personal data, which is then used to try to persuade them. This is not (yet) a particular threat to any important privacy interests, writes Eric Zorn.

I dreaded my family's Passover Seders — until I understood redemption

Whenever Passover is around the corner, I have mixed feelings. I grew up in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. Almost every month, there was another holiday commemorating a significant event in Jewish history. Each had its restrictions and tub of sorrow to drown in.

Where are you when we need you, Father Ted?

Moral leadership is absent in America just when Trump shows us how much we need it. Newton Minow writes about "the greatest moral leader" he's ever known: Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, former president of the University of Notre Dame. 

Scott Stantis cartoons

Check out the latest cartoons by Tribune editorial cartoonist Scott Stantis.

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