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Chief Keef's hologram concert was stopped midway through the first song at Wolf Lake Memorial Park in Hammond July 25, 2015. The concert was originally planned for Chicago.

Clarence Page: This is not a ‘drill.’ NY mayor tackles Chicago-born ‘drill’ rap culture.

February 22, 2022 at 4:42 p.m.

Chicago, historically known for its jazz, blues and electronic "house" dance music, more recently has given birth to something called "drill" rap, a hip-hop subgenre that New York's new Mayor...

Satirist P.J. O'Rourke talks to a Miami University journalism class on Nov. 19, 1993, in Oxford, Ohio.

Clarence Page: After P.J. O’Rourke, who can save conservative comedy now?

February 18, 2022 at 4:49 p.m.

It was poignantly appropriate that the news of P.J. O'Rourke's death was broken by a tweet from his friend Peter Sagal, host of the Chicago-based NPR quiz show "Wait, Wait,...

Joe Rogan looks on during a UFC Fight Night event in 2015. The podcaster came to fame as a "cage-fighting commentator."

Clarence Page: We can learn to live with COVID-19, and with Joe Rogan too

February 15, 2022 at 4:55 p.m.

Since the threat of being "canceled," shamed or otherwise erased from public discourse seems to be a mark of success in media work these days, congratulations, Joe Rogan! You truly...

People wait to get tested for COVID-19 in Times Square in New York in December 2021.

Clarence Page: Can we learn to live with COVID-19, before COVID-19 fatigue kills us?

February 11, 2022 at 5:28 p.m.

Can it be? Two years into our politically polarized fight to end the pandemic, COVID-19 fatigue seems to be rising faster these days than the pandemic itself. No, I haven't...

Donald Trump supporters breach the U.S. Capitol in Washington Jan. 6, 2021.

Column: GOP’s ‘legitimate’ riot gaffe shows Liz Cheney’s ‘willing hostages’ label got it right

February 8, 2022 at 5:41 p.m.

In their haste to rebuke two Republican congressmen who have condemned the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and then-President Donald Trump's role in fueling it, Republican leaders have...

Whoopi Goldberg onstage during the opening ceremony of WorldPride 2019 at Barclays Center in New York in 2019. Goldberg has apologized after she was criticized for saying that the Nazi genocide of 6 million Jews "was not about race."

Clarence Page: Whoopi Goldberg’s timely teachable moment — and ours

February 4, 2022 at 3:21 p.m.

I hesitated to say anything about Whoopi Goldberg's remarks that resulted in her suspension from ABC's "The View" until I could figure out precisely what to be offended about. I...

American historian and educator Carter Godwin Woodson.

Column: Black History Month faces misguided battles over ‘discomfort’

February 1, 2022 at 5:08 p.m.

It's February, time for Black History Month to show itself off in its finest glory, even when its best wardrobe may have to include combat boots. This year, the month...

Sandra Day O'Connor is sworn in as an associate justice by Chief Justice Warren Burger at the Supreme Court in Washington on Sept. 25, 1981.

Column: President Joe Biden’s risky court pick isn’t that risky

January 28, 2022 at 5:08 p.m.

Selective memory is alive and well in politics. You can hear it in the predictable howls of protest and gnashing of teeth following President Joe Biden's promise to — surprise,...

The Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on July 8, 2020. The Supreme Court agreed on Jan. 24, 2022, to decide whether race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina are lawful, calling into question the fate of affirmative action in higher education.

Column: Maybe ‘supply-side’ affirmative action would work better

January 25, 2022 at 5:04 p.m.

Could this be the beginning of the end for affirmative action? We've heard that question before, especially after the Supreme Court's 2003 Grutter v. Bollinger decision narrowly upheld the practice...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks during a news conference following the weekly Senate Republican policy luncheon on Capitol Hill on Jan. 19, 2022.

Column: Yes, Mitch McConnell, African Americans are Americans too

January 21, 2022 at 5:10 p.m.

On the matter of whether he knows that African Americans are Americans too, let's give Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell the benefit of our doubt. Yet he seemed to express...

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