Column: ‘Notorious RBG’ will be remembered for victories yet to come
I hear that Ruth Bader Ginsburg's law clerks had to explain to her that her increasingly popular nickname, "Notorious RBG," was a compliment. I wish I could have been a...
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Column: The pandemic persists, despite Trump’s sidestepping
With less than two months to go until Election Day, the presidential contest increasingly reminds me of a 1950s game show; "Who Do You Trust?" Or, as I feel compelled...
Column: Why I wince when I hear the words ‘white privilege’
Asking President Donald Trump how he feels about "white privilege" is sort of like asking a young fish how it feels about water. As the late author David Foster Wallace...
Column: Note to Mayor Lightfoot and Team Trump: Politics should help, not hurt law enforcement
As marriages of convenience go, Chicago's crime-fighting partnership with the Trump administration looks awkward at best, strikingly in need of a pastor or perhaps a referee. Attorney General William Barr...
Column: If Trump’s military support slips too much, he’ll be the ‘loser’
In response to credible reports that President Donald Trump has derided fallen U.S. soldiers as "losers" and "suckers," the least I could do in protest was to change my Twitter...
Column: Do we ask police to do too much? Daniel Prude case forces questions about mental health care
Shocking video of a Black Chicago man naked, handcuffed and losing consciousness at the hands of white police officers in Rochester, New York, triggers justifiable outrage and questions, including one...
Column: Joe Biden’s familiar straight talk faces Donald Trump’s doublespeak
He's alive! After watching his widely praised speech at the socially distanced Democratic National Convention, I wondered when Joe Biden would come out of his basement again, even if it...
Column: Trump describes an America so scary, I wonder who’s president
For the longest time, President Donald Trump seemed all but unable to figure out who he was running against. But the renewed urban unrest, with fatalities in Kenosha following yet...
Column: Missing from both party conventions: Making jobs great again
A week after the Democrats convened under a platform that could best be summarized as "We're not Donald Trump's party," Republicans approved a platform that essentially said, "We're all-Trump, all...
Column: Kamala Harris defies the soft bigotry of racial expectations
All of the chatter surrounding the historic rise of Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris sounds like an unfortunate trip through a Wayback Machine. The "What is she?" questions about...