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President Joe Biden arrives with first lady Jill Biden to speak outside Independence Hall, Sept. 1, 2022, in Philadelphia.

Clarence Page: This time Donald Trump makes the election stakes unusually high

September 2, 2022 at 5:16 p.m.

What a week. In a prebuttal to President Joe Biden's prime-time "Battle for the Soul of the Nation" speech, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Thursday called on the president...

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., leaves the Senate floor after a vote on Capitol Hill in May. Graham, who moved from a fierce critic of Donald Trump to a loyal companion, predicted on Aug. 28 that a prosecution of the former president would lead to "riots in the streets."

Clarence Page: No ‘double standard’ for Donald Trump’s case, even if his MAGA supporters want one

August 30, 2022 at 4:59 p.m.

When Sen. Lindsey Graham warned that there would be "riots in the streets" if Donald Trump is prosecuted for his handling of classified documents, I wondered what the South Carolina...

Students on the University of Illinois at Chicago campus on Aug. 24, 2022. Earlier in the day President Joe Biden announced his loan forgiveness plan for student debt.

Clarence Page: ‘Dark Brandon’ is learning how political Twitter works, meme by meme by meme

August 26, 2022 at 5:37 p.m.

Dark Brandon is figuring out how Twitter works. "Dark Brandon," if you haven't heard, is a Twitter meme promoted by liberal tweeters to rebrand the right's "Let's Go Brandon" taunts...

Workers are giving up on going above and beyond, also now known as "quiet quitting."

Clarence Page: ‘Quiet quitting’ — not just for the ‘silly season’

August 23, 2022 at 5:19 p.m.

Just as I was wondering whether various crises were coming too fast to allow our usual "silly season" of oddball late summer news, an appropriately weird-sounding social trend popped up...

U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney meets with supporters in Cheyenne, Wyoming, on Aug. 5, 2022, ahead of the primary which she lost to Trump-supported attorney Harriet Hageman.

Clarence Page: Liz Cheney’s GOP hasn’t lost its way, just changed its ways.

August 19, 2022 at 4:26 p.m.

When U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney told an interviewer in the closing days of her reelection campaign that she believed her Republican Party was "very sick" and may not be able...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks as she offers an amendment as the House Rules Committee prepared the bipartisan Senate gun bill for the House floor at the U.S. Capitol on June 24, 2022.

Clarence Page: ‘Defund the FBI’? Is Marjorie Taylor Greene serious?

August 16, 2022 at 6:07 p.m.

Yes, I had to polish my eyeglasses and put them back on for a second look before I could believe what the always provocative and occasionally rational Rep. Marjorie Taylor...

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks at the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit held at the Tampa Convention Center on July 23, 2022, in Tampa, Florida.

Clarence Page: MAGA may not be fascist, but increasingly it rhymes

July 29, 2022 at 5:39 p.m.

As much as I call myself a zealot for free speech, I also find it prudent sometimes to remember the value of not speaking. Or, at least, in pursuit of...

Republican gubernatorial nominee Darren Bailey celebrates with supporters on primary night on June 28, 2022, at Thelma Keller Convention Center in Effingham, Illinois.

Clarence Page: Why almost all the GOP candidates seem to sound like Tucker Carlson

July 26, 2022 at 6:17 p.m.

At a time that should be a moment of glory for Republicans, much of the Grand Old Party is campaigning like a party of trolls. "Trolling" in this social media...

Sen. Josh Hawley, right, escaping the rioters, is shown on July 21, 2022, at the eighth public hearing of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Clarence Page: Jan. 6 hearings make great TV, but will it matter?

July 22, 2022 at 4:32 p.m.

In the long-running talkfest known as the Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6, 2021, Attack on U.S. Capitol, we haven't seen too many made-for-TV moments. We don't, for example,...

An undated portrait of Emmett Louis Till, a Black 14-year-old Chicago boy, whose weighted down body was found in the Tallahatchie River near Money, Mississippi, on Aug. 31, 1955.

Clarence Page: Emmett Till’s story, despite new revelations, still needs the whole truth

July 20, 2022 at 10:10 a.m.

Like a slowly unfolding detective story, the search for justice for Emmett Till keeps taking new and painful turns — and not always toward justice. The latest comes from an...

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