The Bradford Era

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The election: Four good things and one bad
Opinion, Сolumns
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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Indictment affirms an essential principle of justice
Opinion, Сolumns
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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Time to stop hitting kids?
Opinion, Сolumns
JOHN M. CRISP Tribune News Service 
September 13, 2022
It’s odd: You’re having dinner with friends in a nice restaurant. One of them reaches for the breadsticks and carelessly elbows his water glass, swamp...
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What’s missing from the 77-minute Uvalde video?
Opinion, Сolumns
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
Opinion, Сolumns
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?
Opinion, Сolumns
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 victim
Opinion, Сolumns
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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We’ll survive legal weed
Opinion, Сolumns
JOHN M. CRISP Tribune News Service 
July 20, 2021
Consider this premise: For good or ill, the full legalization of marijuana in the United States for recreational purposes is inevitable. How did we re...
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