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		<title><![CDATA[POINT: The Supreme Court didn't just weaken the Constitution -- It became anti-constitutional]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the 2025-26 term, the Supreme Court continued to weaken the
Constitution in its quest to aggrandize itself and the presidency while
diminishing Congress.

As the Roberts Court has done in recent terms, these new decisions
rely on constitutional...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4248245</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jul/09/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[David M. Drucker: Is this socialist wave the left's Tea Party moment?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Democratic establishment, shaken by the rise of progressive
socialists, is right to wonder where this wave might lead. The similarly
populist movement of Tea Party Republicans, however muddled,
foreshadowed President Donald Trump.

Republican ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4248241</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jul/09/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Steve Lopez: On Skid Row, it's been decades of frustration. Will the next mayor have a plan?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES -- On my way through Skid Row to meet up with Estela
Lopez, things looked pretty much as they did when I spent time there more
than 20 years ago and first heard the promises that things would be
better soon.

Tents lined some of the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Jul/09/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lisa Jarvis: It's alarmingly easy to get obesity drugs online]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[A secret shopper survey conducted by researchers at Yale University
and published this week in the Journal of the American Medical
Association offers an alarming, if unsurprising, glimpse into the world
of telehealth purveyors of GLP-1 medicines. ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4248234</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jul/09/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[COUNTERPOINT: The Supreme Court is preserving, not perverting, the Constitution]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court recently
concluded its 236th annual term after hearing 74 cases and holding 58
oral arguments. In most cases, the nine justices did not reach unanimous
agreement. Likewise, the public reaction to many of these rulings was
mixed. ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4248231</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jul/09/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: Shoring up Social Security with a big tax hike? Bad idea]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The nation's largest retirement program will reach a cliff in six
years unless Congress acts. Social Security is going bankrupt,
facing a structural imbalance between promised benefits and dedicated
revenues.

The 2026 Social Security ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4248230</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jul/09/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Editorial: The Fed's independence is unfinished business]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court has recognized the Federal Reserve as a special
case among the government’s numerous independent agencies — one that
requires protection from White House interference. The distinction is
less than clear-cut in legal terms. As...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4248228</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jul/09/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: Howard Zinn spoke to this moment, even decades ago]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not many historians have seen their work referenced on “The
Simpsons” and “The Sopranos.” Not many historians have been
condemned by name by a president on the White House lawn for the
“crime” of researching and writing about this ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4248225</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jul/09/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Editorial: Senator's 'big idea' would be an economic disaster]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Modern politics in many quarters is more performance art than serious
policy, a never-ending quest to generate votes rather than address
substantive issues. This was on full display last week with the
introduction in the Senate of the so-called ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4248224</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jul/09/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Trudy Rubin: Holiday lessons about 'patriotic values' from Folarin Balogun, Pope Leo XIV, and JD Vance]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[I never thought I’d be writing a column that led off with an
analysis of soccer.

I’d planned to write about the lessons our nation’s 250th
birthday party provided for Americans about the real meaning of
“patriotic values.” But as it ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4248220</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jul/09/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Anita Chabria: UC could go back to using the SAT and ACT for admissions. Here's why that doesn't add up]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The University of California Board of Regents is being asked to
consider whether to bring back the SAT and ACT for admissions, a debate
so hot even New York is weighing in on this Golden State
dilemma.

Despite dire warnings from our right-coast ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4248219</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jul/09/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Gustavo Arellano: The Trump 'curse' at the World Cup is his latest red card against Americans]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past 11 years, I've waited for a scandal, a slip up, a moment
of clarity that would finally make President Donald Trump's supporters
realize that their man is charlatan.

My fellow Americans, I think we finally found it.

Earlier this week...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4248216</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jul/09/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: How the Senegalese and the Village People's 'Y.M.C.A.' introduced me to the World Cup]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every four years when the World Cup rolls around, no matter where in
the world I am watching — in a pub in England, in a crowded restaurant
in Spain or in a bar in Chicago — my mind always conjures up images of
that night in Senegal where I ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4248188</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jul/09/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Noah Feldman: The Supreme Court's originalism is dead, dead, dead]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court is destroying originalism in order to save it. In
Trump v. Cook, Chief Justice John Roberts, a supposed originalist,
bypassed the theory in favor of a five-year-old doctrine known as
“history and tradition.” That allowed the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4247740</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jul/08/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: What Chicago's Pride Parade revealed about the rule of law]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[On June 28, the 55th annual Chicago Pride Parade stepped off from
Grace Street and Broadway under this year’s theme, “Free to Be
Proud.” Leading the procession as one of the parade’s community
grand marshals was the Alliance of Illinois ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4247710</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jul/08/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Rochelle Olson: Operation Metro Surge goes under the microscope with Minnesota Truth Council]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the chair of the governor’s Minnesota Truth Council, retired
Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill has inviolable ground rules.

“I’m there to run a good meeting,” Cahill said. “I think
that’s basically what it is, and having ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4247601</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jul/08/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Michael Hiltzik: How right-wing anti-transgender attacks led to a Supreme Court ruling upholding sex discrimination]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the surface, the Supreme Court's June 30 opinion upholding state
laws barring transgender girls from women's and girl's sports teams
looks like a victory for women's rights.

The 6-3 opinion by Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh certainly
presents ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4247600</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jul/08/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: Chicago and other cities are turning budgets into tools for democracy]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s budget season, and advocates are once again mobilizing to
steer public funds toward communities with the greatest needs — even
as budgets are rushed through the process with little analysis of who
benefits and who bears the cost.

But ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4247343</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jul/08/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: Why won't Trump just tell us what the Iran war cost?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Trump administration is
asking Congress to pay for the consequences of a war with Iran that
Congress never authorized. Before lawmakers write that check, they
should require a serious accounting of what the war has already cost —
and what ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4247336</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jul/08/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: I loved living in a small town. But 'love thy neighbor' has changed in America]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[For more than two decades, I, a Black woman, lived with my family in
a small Illinois town filled with white residents, many with a staunch
fidelity to God, country and guns.

Although I don’t live there anymore, it was a delightful place
...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4247334</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jul/08/2026</pubDate>
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