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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: Donald Trump's design depravity and disregard for expertise]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[In June 2014, it seemed the entire city was upset when a certain New
York real estate developer added five 20-foot-tall serifed letters
spelling his name to the 16th floor of his eponymous tower facing the
Chicago River.

That moment and the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4272553</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/10/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Editorial: Prosecuting Fauci is an affront to justice]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sen. Rand Paul is a medical doctor, an ophthalmologist, but he has an
unhealthy obsession with Dr. Anthony Fauci and now has rigged a ridiculous
contempt of Congress charge against Fauci, who was the ubiquitous,
calming voice of reason during the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4272529</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/10/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Editorial: What happened to our collective reverence for death?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Few things are as shocking to living people as corpses decomposing in
the summer heat.

But that is what apparently occurred inside a funeral home on the
city’s Southeast Side when more than 50 human bodies were discovered
inside the South ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4272528</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/10/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Robin Abcarian: Democratic socialists aren't coming to threaten your way of life]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[How deeply is President Donald Trump mired in disasters of his own
making? Let me count the ways:

His deeply unpopular war against Iran resulted in a stronger Iran
regime, dared Iran to restrict the Strait of Hormuz and led to a
damaged-but-...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4272503</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/10/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Abby McCloskey: The back-to-school blues are here -- for parents]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[School doesn’t begin again for a few weeks. But you wouldn’t know
it looking at my phone. These days, returning to the classroom seems to
involve more homework for parents than for students.

Weeks before my child has been assigned a teacher ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4272456</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/10/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[David M. Drucker: Trump's army of election deniers is a problem on many levels]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let’s set aside, for a moment, how ridiculous it is that officials
serving in President Donald Trump’s administration, including
executive and judicial officials, won’t acknowledge in front of
Congress that Joe Biden won the 2020 election.

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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4272455</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/10/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Peter Jensen: A balanced approach to Social Security]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[I landed my first real, albeit minimum wage job at the tender age of
15, and one of my lasting memories was how the paycheck came with a
boatload of deductions. 

Money was withheld for federal and local income taxes, of course, but
there was one ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4272191</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/10/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: Empty pews, regulatory zoos and populist views]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[A quarter-millennium into the American experiment, some of our
skepticism of big government has given way to populism and astounding
numbers of regulations. Here’s one explanation.

Following British overreach and the weak Articles of ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4272189</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/10/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: From Nazi Party membership records to family lineages, databases reveal hidden histories]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[What keeps secrets secret? Historically, social respectability has
relied, remarkably often, on the discretion of others and the last
resort of deniability. Now, these safeguards are being demolished by
databases: collections of facts that, when ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4272187</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/10/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: Schools keep calling moms, reinforcing old assumptions and roles]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The start of the school year brings a familiar list of
responsibilities for parents: buying school supplies, keeping track of
forms, coordinating transportation and responding to a steady stream of
emails from teachers and administrators.

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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4272186</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/10/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: No one who works full time should be on Medicaid]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of jobs in the U.S. economy that pay miserably low
wages. And there are a lot that offer a reasonable hourly rate but still
result in miserably low earnings because of unstable, fluctuating
schedules. 

How many is hard to know, ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4271579</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/09/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Editorial: Unmasking Uthmeier's attack on Dr. Fauci]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[We may never know what caused the COVID-19 pandemic that has taken more than 7 million
lives worldwide. Was it a leak at a laboratory, as some
have claimed? Did it come from
animals, as most scientific bodies have stated?

We do know this: The ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4271578</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/09/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Mark Gongloff: Florida chooses insurers and their profits over homeowners]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[U.S. states are supposedly the laboratories of democracy, cooking up
and testing local solutions to national problems. But some of those labs
are more like Walter White’s RV methmobile: They’re not always doing
stuff you want to emulate. 

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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4271576</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/09/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Editorial: Pritzker and Trump go after Big Oil. For their own political purposes]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker wrote to the U.S. CEOs of
seven major oil companies accusing them of “profiteering” from the
war in Iran and imploring them to return their bounty to Illinois
consumers.

“Under the guise of supply ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4271237</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/08/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Editorial: Nevada draws short stick in federal water plan]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arizona and Nevada will feel the brunt of the pain under a federal
plan to reduce stress on the Colorado River. It’s an unjust solution,
particularly for the Silver State.

Recently, the Interior Department released a 10-year blueprint to
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4271235</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/08/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Jill Burcum: A 'zombie' that could slash abortion access may be lumbering to life]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sen. Tina Smith warned Minnesotans two years ago that a zombie could
rise from the dead. She was right.

The zombie in question isn’t a movie monster. It’s the Comstock
Act, a 1873 law criminalizing the mailing of “obscene” materials
that ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4271199</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/08/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Editorial: Bessent's defense of the Yen is a risky innovation]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s decision to join Japan in
supporting the yen was the first joint intervention of its kind for
decades and took investors by surprise. There’s a respectable case for
such cooperation: The U.S. and Japan can ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4271079</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/08/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[David M. Drucker: You can't beat Susan Collins on working-class vibes alone]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let’s give credit where it’s due to Democrats hoping to unseat
Republican Senator Susan Collins in Maine: Troy Jackson is certainly an
improvement over Graham Platner. 

As a former longtime state legislator, his background has been
vetted, ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4271016</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/08/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[LZ Granderson: Don't let Abdul El-Sayed's identity eclipse his actual politics]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The day after the state's Senate primary, I was at a gym in Michigan
when I overheard a brief exchange about the results of the close
race.

The small group of voters were all elderly and white. Most of them
expressed disappointment that ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4270532</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/07/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: The Iran war should be the end of the Jones Act]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Iran war has provided at least two clear economic lessons. It has
exposed the steep costs of being reliant on fossil fuels, highlighting
the need for countries to diversify their homegrown energy sources,
including solar and wind power. And it...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4270333</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/07/2026</pubDate>
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