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Ralph Yarl, the teenager shot by a homeowner in Kansas City, Missouri.

Clarence Page: Note to my fellow grumpy old men: Don’t reach too quickly for your firearms

April 21, 2023 at 5:55 p.m.

I don't sympathize in any way with Andrew Lester, but I think I understand him. From what I hear through the media, he sounds like a fellow grumpy old man....

Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson speaks after meeting with Mayor Lori Lightfoot at Chicago City Hall on April 6, 2023.

Clarence Page: Enough flowery speeches, Mr. Mayor-elect. It’s time to move on to governing.

April 18, 2023 at 6:50 p.m.

It's summertime, and the living is queasy. That's the best I can say for the continuing sense of foreboding and possible catastrophe that remains in the wake of Chicago's recent...

In this image from video from the Senate Judiciary Committee, Matthew Kacsmaryk listens during his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Dec. 13, 2017. Now a federal judge in Texas, Kacsmaryk issued a ruling that would block the Food and Drug Administration's approval of mifepristone.

Clarence Page: GOP, beware. Abortion politics are firing up both sides.

April 14, 2023 at 7:01 p.m.

Remember how conservatives used to decry "judicial activism?"? As I recall, that was before they began to see an advantage in some judicial activism of their own. In its simplest...

Gloria Johnson, from left, Justin Jones and Justin Pearson arrive at Fisk University in Nashville on April 7, 2023, to meet Vice President Kamala Harris. Jones and Pearson were expelled from the Tennessee House the day before. Johnson survived an effort to expel her.

Clarence Page: Even a majority needs to share the microphone

April 11, 2023 at 5:29 p.m.

Sometimes, majority rules. Sometimes it's just cruel. Some people can't seem to tell the difference. That's one lesson to be drawn from Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, two Black Democratic...

Justice Clarence Thomas in Dallas, Texas, in May 2022. Democratic lawmakers on April 6, 2023, reiterated calls to tighten ethics rules for the Supreme Court after a report shed light on gifts and favors Thomas accepted from a major conservative donor for nearly 20 years.

Clarence Page: Justice Clarence Thomas’ appearance of impropriety? We’ll be the judge.

April 7, 2023 at 5:28 p.m.

It must be more than a little embarrassing for a Supreme Court justice to lament that he took some bad legal advice. But the embarrassment will be worth it for...

Disney CEO Bob Iger attends the Academy Awards in Hollywood, California, on March 12, 2023.

Clarence Page: How Mickey Mouse outwitted Florida’s governor

April 4, 2023 at 6:38 p.m.

At the Walt Disney Co., "The Empire Strikes Back" is more than a title of one of its "Star Wars" movies. It also describes how Disney's chief executive, Bob Iger...

Yusef Salaam, one of the exonerated Central Park Five, displays a full-page ad taken out in 1989 by Donald Trump in the New York Times. Salaam spoke at Purdue University Northwest in Hammond on Sept. 22, 2022.

Clarence Page: Equal justice, even for Donald Trump and other suspects

March 31, 2023 at 5:34 p.m.

Yusef Salaam, whom you may remember as one of the exonerated Central Park Five, had only one word to tweet to those who wanted to know his feelings about the...

A person walks past archways at Stanford University on March 9, 2020, in Stanford, California.

Clarence Page: Listen well to those with whom you disagree, so you can make better arguments

March 28, 2023 at 4:05 p.m.

One might think that in college programs which promote DEI, — diversity, equity and inclusion —"diversity" should include diversification of social and political viewpoints. Unfortunately, as you already may know...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis greets people during an event spotlighting his newly released book at the Orange County Choppers Road House & Museum on March 8, 2023, in Pinellas Park, Florida.

Clarence Page: Don’t let press freedom die in the ‘Sunshine State,’ or anywhere else

March 24, 2023 at 5:35 p.m.

Amid his culture war campaign against "woke" liberals, critical race theory and other bugaboos of the political right, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has taken his ongoing culture war to an...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis reacts after signing HB 7, the Individual Freedom bill, also dubbed the "Stop Woke Act," at Mater Academy Charter Middle/High School in Hialeah Gardens, Florida, on April 22, 2022.

Clarence Page: What is ‘woke’? More than a joke

March 21, 2023 at 4:40 p.m.

Every time I think the overused term "woke" has just about played out in politics, it seems to come roaring back into our politics with new vigor — and new...

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