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Members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, from left, Rep. Dan Bishop, D-N.C., Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, and Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., meet with reporters in Statuary Hall to talk about their opposition to voting for Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., to be speaker of the House at the Capitol in Washington Jan. 6, 2023.

Clarence Page: Today’s Republicans need to get out of their own way

January 6, 2023 at 5:37 p.m.

As the House moved past a dozen ballots in failed attempts to elect California Republican Kevin McCarthy to be House speaker, a catchy refrain from the musical "Hamilton" grew louder...

People arrive for work at the rehabbed Old Post Office in Chicago in March 2022. Office life as we used to know it has been thoroughly shaken up.

Clarence Page: Back to ‘abnormal’? Chicago can come back after the pandemic is gone.

January 3, 2023 at 5:30 p.m.

Pardon me if I glance at the top of this column just to remember what day it is. Besides old age, chalk it up to the past two years of...

Venezuelan immigrant Stephanie holds her daughter Hannie, 10 months, after spending the night camped along the U.S.-Mexico border fence on Dec. 22, 2022, in El Paso, Texas. They traveled to the U.S. border from Chile, where Hannie, a Chilean citizen, was born.

Clarence Page: What’s the Supreme Court’s Title 42 case about? Hint: It’s not the pandemic.

March 11, 2024 at 1:11 p.m.

Amid the constant partisan fussing, feuding and fighting in Washington these days, I was gratified — however briefly — by a moment of bipartisan agreement at the Supreme Court. The...

The dome of the U.S. Capitol is visible as a people participate in a live Nativity scene on Dec. 7, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Clarence Page: What if Mary and Joseph came to today’s Washington?

December 27, 2022 at 5:44 p.m.

On the second day of Christmas, my true love said to me, "You ought to write about the family that took in the South Korean tourists who were stranded near...

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., speaks alongside House Republican leaders at the U.S Capitol Building on Dec. 14, 2022, in Washington.

Clarence Page: Republicans release their Jan. 6 report. Which riot did they see?

December 23, 2022 at 5:41 p.m.

As the mostly Democratic House committee investigating the Jan. 6. 2021, attack on the Capitol blamed "one man," former President Donald Trump, as its central cause, House Republicans found someone...

Fans take photos with Elon Musk during the World Cup final match between Argentina and France on Dec. 18, 2022, in Lusail City, Qatar. Musk has made massive staff cuts at Twitter.

Clarence Page: Elon Musk finds ‘free speech’ to be more than a pastime

December 21, 2022 at 1:31 p.m.

I hate to say "I told you so" unless, of course, I turn out to be right. When Elon Musk called himself a "free speech absolutist" in announcing his intent...

Kanye West, also known as Ye, in New York on Sept. 12, 2022. Elon Musk, Twitter's chief executive, said on Dec. 1, 2022, that West would be suspended from Twitter after the rapper and fashion designer tweeted an image of a swastika inside the Star of David.

Clarence Page: Can Kanye West, aka Ye, save himself from his enablers — including the GOP?

December 2, 2022 at 6:32 p.m.

I thought I had stepped into an alternative universe. Who would have guessed that, in a dialogue between Kanye West and Alex Jones, Jones would come across as the voice...

This image released by Merriam-Webster shows a screen of the word "gaslighting" and its definition from Merriam-Webster.com.

Clarence Page: Time to turn off the gas in political ‘gaslighting’

November 29, 2022 at 5:27 p.m.

It's not hard to understand why Merriam-Webster, the dictionary giant, chose "gaslighting" as their "word of the year" for 2022. I was only surprised that it took so long. Rolling...

Dr. Allison Arwady, commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health, receives a bivalent COVID-19 booster Nov. 22, 2022, from pharmacist Atenea Gazdziak in Chicago, after encouraging people to get vaccinated against the flu and COVID-19 variants.

Clarence Page: ‘Tripledemic’? As if the pandemic isn’t enough.

November 27, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

Have you ever been so sick you couldn't get into bed? Yes, you read me right. I've had the experience of being too sick to get out of bed before....

Debbie Bigler, 66, from left, Colleen Minisce, 61, and Janis Kramer, 75, all members of the Milwaukee Dancing Grannies, prepare to march in the Veterans Day parade in Milwaukee on Nov. 5, 2022. Kramer, right, has been a Dancing Granny for about 19 years. Bigler and Minisce are among a crop of newer members who are helping the Grannies rebuild.

Clarence Page: Despite today’s bad news, good people offer good reasons to give thanks

November 22, 2022 at 5:07 p.m.

In a world boiling over with bad news, you can find it increasingly hard to pause and seriously ponder the value of giving thanks, even on the holiday created for...

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