Is Ryan Kelly’s iconic photograph an American ‘Guernica’?
By Jennifer Wenzel The Conversation On August 12, Charlottesville Daily Progress photographer Ryan M. Kelly captured the exact moment that
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Guest Columns
Remembering Rockford’s Ruby Skye
By Bruce Hammond For The Rock River Times With the passing of Karen Howard on Monday, Aug. 7, Rockford lost
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China key to avoiding ‘fire and fury’ in North Korea
By Greg Wright The Conversation President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un are playing a dangerous game of
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Aldermen should consider regional impacts of gas station
By John Guevara Contributor There’s a new hullabaloo. Should Rockford put a gas station downtown, or not? This week, answering
Read moreKris Kobach and Kansas’ SAFE Act
By Chelsie Bright The Conversation If you want to understand President Donald Trump’s voter fraud commission, it helps to study
Read moreSenate GOP advances a health care bill. Now what?
By Jeffrey Lazarus, David McLennan, & Rachel Caufield The Conversation Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell narrowly managed to keep a Republican
Read more5 faulty beliefs that have led to Republican dysfunction on health care
By J.B. Silvers The Conservation Now that the new version of the Senate health care bill is available, an outside
Read moreBesty DeVos is abdicating her role in protecting students
Given Donald Trump’s frequent campaign promises to wipe out “job killing” regulations on Day One, no one should be surprised
Read moreEnsuring accurate, secure elections must be a priority
While there are many things we still don’t know, one thing we have learned about Russia’s attempts to hack the
Read moreWhy market competition has not brought down health care costs
By Gerald Friedman The Conversation It is easier than ever to buy stuff. You can purchase almost anything on Amazon
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Trump’s budget sets table for more hunger, fiscal pain in Illinois
By Dan Lesser The Shriver Brief SNAP is working. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly food stamps) helps roughly 1
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George HW Bush: America’s last foreign policy president
By James Goldgeier The Conversation George H.W. Bush, who turns 93 today, was the last person elected president of the
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How bad could Trump’s Paris Agreement withdrawal be?
By Robert Kopp The Conversation Even before the Paris Agreement was signed in December 2015, market forces and policy measures
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Homeless vets with families: An untold part of veterans’ struggles
By Roya Ijadi-Maghsoodi The Conversation In 2010, the Obama administration announced the ambitious goal of ending homelessness among veterans. In
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Mass incarceration did not and will not work
America’s mass incarceration problem in 5 charts – or, why Sessions shouldn’t bring back mandatory minimums By Tanya Golash-Boza The
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