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Another long week, but we made it. Here are your Friday reads from the @chitribopinions pages of the @chicagotribune / thread follows
... columnist @EricZorn notes the proliferation of gun-carrying at the protests in Kenosha and wonders if it will escalate our nation's racial tensions into a new civil war. chicagotribune.com/columns/eric-z…
... the @ChicagoCouncil Paul Schickler and John Austin see potential for a rural renaissance. chicagotribune.com/opinion/commen…
... @nick_goldberg lays out the weird, dangerous allure of QAnon and explains why it's a dangerous sandbox for Trump to play in.
chicagotribune.com/opinion/commen…
... and @JonahDispatch says the @GOP decision not to have a party platform in 2020 marks the end of the power of the convention. chicagotribune.com/opinion/commen…
... as always, find all of our op-eds, columnists, reader letters, cartoons and editorials here:
chicagotribune.com/opinion/
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The Kenosha story has developed rapidly this week, and it's been hard to stop and consider what to say about it all. On our @chitribopinions pages, we're looking for lessons, answers. / thread follows
... this op-ed, by Robert Koehler, about Kenosha arrived too late for our print deadlines, but it's an important read. chicagotribune.com/opinion/commen…
... syndicated columnist @VDHanson takes a wider look at this summer of protest, racial tension and violence and considers what it all means. chicagotribune.com/opinion/commen…
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Good morning. From today's @chitribopinions pages in the the @chicagotribune / thread follows
... columnist @EricZorn shifts his focus to @SAKimFoxx's Republican challenger Pat O'Brien, and says he also has some explaining to do about a troubled case.
chicagotribune.com/columns/eric-z…
... columnist @cptime is watching the party conventions and says both the DNC and RNC are failing to address one crucial issue: jobs. chicagotribune.com/columns/claren…
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ICYMI, here's the lineup from today's @chitribopinions pages in the @chicagotribune / thread follows
... cartoonist Joe Fournier gets in the head of @USPS Postmaster General Louis DeJoy chicagotribune.com/opinion/chi-ed…
... and on a similar theme, political science profs Susan Orr and James Johnson look at mail-in voting and the value of a "secret ballot" in our democracy. chicagotribune.com/opinion/commen…
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