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Thursday, July 16, 2020

Flashback 2002: Readers' thoughts on reparations

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      A reader remembered a column I had written on reparations in 2002, and I posted it Tuesday. It makes sense to then share some of th...
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Wednesday, July 15, 2020

All that natural beauty made my eyes itch

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   Nobody will ever ask me to create a school curriculum. But if they did, I would suggest just two essential classes to help students...
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Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Flashback 2002: Fighting slavery's legacy—Reparations reconsidered

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Family of freed slaves, Crawfordsville, Georgia, 1866 (G. Gable; Metropolitan Museum of Art)       Sometimes my wife will say, "Go...
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Monday, July 13, 2020

Day after day after day after day after day

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The last normal thing: Northbrook Chamber of Commerce meeting, March 6, 2020.       “Any idiot can survive a crisis,” Anton Chekhov on...
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Sunday, July 12, 2020

We can’t fly; we can’t hug; at least let us grin

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     This grew surprisingly unpleasant. Someone at the paper saw a story Thursday  about this COVID-shaped snack, and asked if I would wei...
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Saturday, July 11, 2020

Texas notes: Karen

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    The latest report from Caren Jeskey, EGD's Austin Bureau Chief.      "Marsha Marsha Marsha!" You may recall thes...
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Friday, July 10, 2020

Duckworth may even grow into the VP job

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Joe Biden has promised to select a woman as his VP.        Aw, gee...      My problem is, I wait too long. Waste time thinking. Mulling...
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