Column: Michael Vick deserves our forgiveness
It's hard to exaggerate the viciousness of what Michael Vick did. While playing for the Atlanta Falcons, the star NFL quarterback financed a dogfighting operation, provided a site for fights...
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Column: Why Democrats are not afraid to abolish the death penalty
Kamala Harris has always opposed capital punishment. As district attorney of San Francisco, she declined to seek the death penalty for an accused cop-killer, infuriating the police union and putting...
Column: Trump’s 3 obsessions: Tariffs, bigotry and Putin
Donald Trump is a volatile personality with a penchant for creating confusion and chaos. His impulsive, irascible nature often makes it appear that the only logic to his presidency is...
Column: Excusing bad behavior only encourages worse, whether it happens in football, at war or in the White House
Professional football involves systematic violence. On every play, men do things that would get them arrested in other contexts. What makes it a game — rather than a brawl, a...
Column: An impeachment alternative for Republicans: Censure Trump
For Republicans who are weary of trying to deny the obvious about Donald Trump and his attempt to force Ukraine's president to give him ammunition against Joe Biden, there is...
Column: In Chicago suburbs, legal marijuana meets the not-in-my-backyard crowd
The effort to legalize recreational marijuana for adult use has been long, slow and arduous, but in recent years, 11 states have taken that step. The demonization of cannabis, however,...
Column: Trump is right on vapes: U.S. should not ban flavored e-cigarettes
The prohibitionist impulse can be overcome, with great difficulty and over a long period, but it can never be quite defused. Right now, America is moving toward legalizing recreational cannabis,...
Column: Trump was combating corruption in Ukraine? Don’t make me laugh.
The House Intelligence Committee is called that for good reason: It oversees intelligence matters. But President Donald Trump's defenders on the committee think it's their job to insult our intelligence....
Column: Trump Foundation’s shocking graft is a big scandal, but a forgotten one
The U.S. House investigation of Donald Trump's nefarious dealings with the government of Ukraine, leading to an official impeachment inquiry, cannot be counted among his happiest experiences as president. But...
Column: I told you Barack Obama was a moderate
Who would have ever thought that in his post-presidency years, Barack Obama would take a hard turn to the right? But lately he's earned praise from sharp-edged conservatives while getting...