Amid state’s political darkness, a bright spot in criminal justice reform
By Austin Berg Illinois News Network Not much is going right in Illinois. It’s home to the worst population loss
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How Congress is failing on Zika
By Ana Santos Rutschman DePaul University Three times Congress has taken up legislation to fund the continuing response to the Zika
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Will Wells Fargo execs escape unscathed?
By Lee Reiners The Conversation Having spent five years supervising large financial institutions on Wall Street, I am rarely surprised by
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What do the Clinton charities actually do and where does their money go?
By Brian Mittendorf The Ohio State University Charities tied to the Clinton family have received seemingly endless scrutiny throughout the presidential
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Putting Rauner’s millions into perspective
By Rich Miller Capitol Fax The Washington Post published a story the other day entitled “Meet the wealthy donors who
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Can Congress build bipartisanship through caucuses?
By Jennifer Victor The Conversation President Obama is eager to use the few remaining legislative days before the election to get
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How the pain of 9/11 still stays with a generation
By Dana Rose Garfin University of California, Irvine The Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks were the worst acts of terrorism on
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Have we forgotten the true meaning of Labor Day?
By Jay L. Zagorsky The Conversation Labor Day is a U.S. national holiday held the first Monday every September. Unlike most
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What the G20 is doing, and why it matters
By Neil Renwick The Conversation As the leaders of the world’s 19 biggest economies and the European Union meet in the
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David Duke, Donald Trump and the dog whistle
By Kirby Goidel, Charles S. Bullock III & Keith Gaddie The Conversation David Duke, the blow-dried wizard of Louisiana politics, is back. This
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The case against privatizing national parks
By John Freemuth & William Lowry The Conversation The centennial of the National Park Service is inspiring an impressive amount of soul-searching about
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Why don’t we properly fund our national parks?
By Linda J. Bilmes & John Loomis The Conversation One of the quirks of government accounting is that our nation’s most valuable assets
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Voters say remove licensing restrictions for ex-offenders
A poll of Illinois registered voters finds 76 percent want to remove occupational licensing barriers for ex-offenders. By Bryant Jackson-Green
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Are US politics beyond a joke?
By Simon Doubleday Hofstra University “I really do respect the press,” President Barack Obama joked at the White House Correspondents’ Association
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Most students borrow for college; are they financially literate?
By Catherine Montalto & Anne McDaniel Ohio State University August is here, and many families are preparing their children for the next academic
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