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The election: Four good things and one bad
Commentary, Nation World
JOHN M. CRISP Tribune News Service 
November 12, 2024
Full disclosure: In 2016 I voted for Hillary Clinton; in 2020 I voted for Joe Biden; last week I voted for Kamala Harris. If you’re gathering that I w...
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Fly to Mars? Maybe. But why?
Opinion
JOHN M. CRISP Tribune News Service 
April 10, 2023
Last week NASA announced the names of the four astronauts who will crew Artemis II, a 10-day mission planned for November 2024. The expedition will bo...
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Indictment affirms an essential principle of justice
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
JOHN M. CRISP Tribune News Service 
April 3, 2023
Count me among those who are skeptical about indicting former president Donald Trump on charges that he tried to cover up an affair by paying off a po...
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How I changed my mind about the queen
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
JOHN M. CRISP Tribune News Service 
September 21, 2022
Among humankind’s many bad ideas, the monarchy was hardly the worst. And it was certainly one of the most inevitable. We humans have an inherent incli...
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What’s missing from the 77-minute Uvalde video?
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
JOHN M. CRISP Tribune News Service 
July 18, 2022
It’s not easy to make sense of the 77-minute video shot from an overhead camera near the classrooms where 19 children and two teachers were murdered i...
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The inextricable link between abortion and religion
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
JOHN M. CRISP Tribune News Service 
May 16, 2022
There’s something admirable in the consistency of abortion’s most ardent opponents. If a fertilized egg is a full-fledged human life, its destruction ...
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Is America bound for a second civil war?
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
JOHN M. CRISP Tribune News Service 
January 19, 2022
A second civil war seems far-fetched. But do we ignore the possibility at our peril? Or do we turn it into a self-fulfilling prophecy by talking about...
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Another needless COVID victim
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
JOHN M. CRISP Tribune News Service 
August 31, 2021
You don’t have to be a scientist to muster convincing arguments in favor of commonsense measures for combating COVID-19. COVID spreads through the air...
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