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Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker speaks during a "Unite Georgia Bus Tour," at The Mill on Etowah, on Sept. 27, 2022, in Canton, Georgia.

Clarence Page: Herschel Walker’s Senate race reveals how culture war can backfire

October 7, 2022 at 5:41 p.m.

It's easy for others to meet your expectations, if you set your standards low enough. That seems to be the running theme in Georgia's closely-watched Senate race between Democratic Sen....

Students walk near the Widener Library at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., in 2019 The Supreme Court is set to hear two cases filed by Students for Fair Admissions on behalf of Asian American students who claim they were passed over for admission to Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, essentially because they didn't belong to the right minority group.

Clarence Page: Is affirmative action on the way out? Opportunities still endure.

October 4, 2022 at 7:14 p.m.

The Supreme Court's latest affirmative action case reminds me of a married couple I know who both happen to be attorneys of color. He's a U.S.-born Black lawyer. She's an...

Parents and caregivers with the Economic Security Project gather outside the White House in Washington to advocate for the Child Tax Credit in advance of the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health on Sept. 20, 2022.

Clarence Page: What’s missing in 2022 campaign issues? Child poverty.

September 30, 2022 at 6:22 p.m.

Well, that was nice while it lasted. For six months we seemed to be making real progress against childhood poverty. The progress came as a consequence of a national emergency,...

Migrants from Venezuela relax outside the Hampton Inn & Suites in suburban Burr Ridge on Sept. 8, 2022.

Clarence Page: Maybe migrants should thank GOP governors for free bus rides

March 11, 2024 at 1:15 p.m.

It's ironic to see the best-laid plans of political men and women lead to unexpected consequences. But it happens. Take, for example, the issue of immigration reform, Texas-style. Texas Gov....

Former President Donald Trump takes the stage in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on Sept. 3, 2022.

Clarence Page: ‘Process?’ No problem, just let Donald Trump ‘think’ about it

September 23, 2022 at 4:51 p.m.

Is there no end to the mighty powers of our former President Donald Trump? We were suitably impressed or, at least, astonished when he famously told us in his 2016...

Amanda Darrow, director of youth, family and education programs at the Utah Pride Center, with books that have been the subject of complaints from parents in Salt Lake City on Dec. 16, 2021. The wave of attempted book banning and restrictions continues to intensify, the American Library Association reported. Numbers for 2022 already approach last year's totals, which were the highest in decades.

Clarence Page: Here’s why I celebrate banned books

September 20, 2022 at 5:41 p.m.

Congratulations to this year's notable authors of banned books. According to the Chicago-based American Library Association, whose Office for Intellectual Freedom keeps track of such things, schools and public libraries...

A Venezuelan migrant is led onto a bus at St. Andrews Episcopal Church on Sept. 16, 2022, on the island of Martha' s Vineyard. A group of migrants was flown to the island from Texas earlier in the week.

Clarence Page: Our immigration mess needs an overhaul, not DeSantis’ stunts

March 11, 2024 at 1:15 p.m.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis showed downright cruel audacity in slamming Democrats for going "berserk" with "virtue signaling" after he sent dozens of asylum-seeking migrants from his state to Martha's Vineyard....

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II reviews the honor guard upon her arrival at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, Nigeria on Dec. 3, 2003.

Clarence Page: Britain’s identity crisis — and ours

September 13, 2022 at 5:43 p.m.

Sorting out my own grief over the death of Queen Elizabeth II, I feel some of what I imagine Frederick Douglass felt when he wrote his historic speech titled "What...

Bernard Shaw, co-host of "Inside Politics," prepares for his live daily show in the CNN studios in Washington on Feb. 9, 2001.

Clarence Page: Bernard Shaw, a trailblazing icon who knew when to leave the microphone

September 9, 2022 at 4:54 p.m.

As a journalist, Bernard Shaw was an iconic pioneer who hated to be called "iconic." Yet, as far as I was concerned, the label fit. He turned his name, along...

Author Barbara Ehrenreich is seen at her home in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 25, 2005. Ehrenreich, an author, activist and journalist who in such notable works as "Nickel and Dimed" and "Bait and Switch" challenged conventional thinking about class, religion and the idea of an American dream, died Sept. 1, 2022, at age 81.

Clarence Page: Barbara Ehrenreich revealed the grim side of prosperity

September 6, 2022 at 6:13 p.m.

Barbara Ehrenreich told us about "essential workers" before it was cool. In more than 20 books and numerous articles and essays, she earned a reputation as a self-described "myth buster,"...

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