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Pro-Palestinian activists at an encampment at DePaul University in Chicago on May 5, 2024. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Clarence Page: This era’s protesters could stand to ask a few more questions

May 15, 2024 at 5:05 a.m.

This era's encampments carry echoes of the "teach-ins" on campuses during the Vietnam War era.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., leaves the Capitol in Washington after attempting to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., from his post on May 8, 2024. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times)

Clarence Page: Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn’t run the government after all

May 12, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

Those of us who believe that Congress should find common ground could derive hope in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s failed lurch toward autocracy.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs legislation on May 15, 2023, banning state funding for diversity, equity, and inclusion programs at Florida's public universities, at New College of Florida in Sarasota. (Douglas R. Clifford/Tampa Bay Times)

Clarence Page: DEI on campus and in corporations is due for a change

May 8, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

If the value of a DEI program does not help either the work environment or profits, I agree that it should be questioned and improved.

Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., speaks at a news conference during a visit to Columbia University in New York on April 24, 2024. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., faced boos at Columbia as he criticized protesters after meeting with Jewish students. (Bing Guan/The New York Times)

Clarence Page: Congress enters thorny debate over how to define antisemitism

May 5, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

It's ironic that the debate over a bill to curb antisemitism that passed in the U.S. House began with heated discussion over definitions.

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, left, Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, and Bernie Moreno, a Republican primary candidate for the U.S. Senate, center, cheer as former President Donald Trump speaks during a Buckeye Values PAC Rally in Dayton, Ohio, on March 16, 2024. (Maddie McGarvey/The New York Times)

Clarence Page: J.D. Vance, running mate for Donald Trump? That would complete quite the political journey.

May 1, 2024 at 5:05 a.m.

J.D. Vance's conversion from Donald Trump critic to a reported vice-presidential candidate is quite something.

National Guardsmen open fire on students, some of whom are fleeing for cover into Taylor Hall May 4, 1970, in Kent, Ohio. Four students died and nine others were wounded during the student protest at Kent State against the Vietnam War. Clouds of dust at the far left of the photo near the sidewalk show bullets hitting the ground. (Paul Tople/Akron Beacon Journal)

Clarence Page: Campus protests carry echoes of five decades ago

April 28, 2024 at 5:05 a.m.

We've seen unrest on campuses like this before. And we've seen similar responses.

Demonstrators gather around the General Logan monument in Grant Park on Sept. 28, 1968, to listen to speeches protesting police actions during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. (John Austad / baiduhai)

Clarence Page: A new Chicago mayor faces similar issues to the ones that dogged Richard J. Daley in 1968

April 24, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

A Democratic National Convention approaches in Chicago as the winds of protest howl, just as they did in 1968.

The 16-story towers of the Robert Taylor homes are bordered by railroad tracks and the Dan Ryan Expressway in the shadow of the downtown skyline in December 1984. (Frank Hanes/baiduhai)

Clarence Page: A small step toward reversing the decades-long community harm of Chicago’s expressways

April 21, 2024 at 5:05 a.m.

The Biden administration just green-lighted a $2 million grant to study how to reconnect urban communities divided by expressways built long ago.

A Save America rally hosted by former President Donald Trump in Commerce, Georgia, on March 26, 2022. (Audra Melton/The New York Times)

Clarence Page: Loss of support from Republican evangelicals suits MAGA crowd just fine

April 17, 2024 at 5:01 a.m.

There simply are fewer Republican evangelicals these days, and the MAGA crowd now is better able to get along just fine without them.

Prosecutor Marcia Clark demonstrates to the jury how Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were killed during her closing arguments on Sept. 26, 1995, in O.J. Simpson's double-murder trial in Los Angeles. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Daily News)

Clarence Page: Better public understanding of domestic violence was the one silver lining of O.J. Simpson’s fall

April 12, 2024 at 5:29 p.m.

The racial divisions exposed by O.J. Simpson's not-guilty verdict were undeniable, but even most Blacks think now he was guilty. Domestic violence is the more important legacy.

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