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Column: No, the Obamas’ Netflix movie isn’t political, unless you want it to be

August 23, 2019 at 7:04 p.m.

Is anyone "shocked, shocked," as the prefect in "Casablanca" might say, that some people are calling the first project to come out of Barack and Michelle Obama's production company's deal...

Column: Don’t make diversity the enemy of excellence

August 20, 2019 at 2:54 p.m.

As a new generation of college students gets ready to return to campus, I'm reminded of the late Allan Bloom, the University of Chicago professor, philosopher and — on the...

Column: What role does ‘toxic masculinity’ play in mass shootings?

August 13, 2019 at 5:28 p.m.

As the toll from mass shootings this year already approaches the total for all of last year, more people are openly asking a question that has lurked mostly in the...

Joe Biden, former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate, at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines on Aug. 8, 2019.

Column: Don’t like Biden’s gaffes? Consider the alternatives

August 9, 2019 at 1:05 p.m.

OK, we saw this coming, didn't we? Former Vice President Joe Biden, who has a well-known history of gaffes, spouted another one Thursday night by telling a group of mostly...

Advocates of gun reform legislation hold a vigil for victims of recent mass shootings outside the headquarters of the National Rifle Association on Aug. 5, 2019, in Fairfax, Virginia.

Column: El Paso shooting exposes our denial about domestic terrorism

August 6, 2019 at 1:32 p.m.

When newscasters speak of Dayton and El Paso, I hear my name. I was born in Dayton, Ohio, and later covered local news there as an intern in the days...

President Donald Trump stops to talk to reporters as he walks from Marine One across the South Lawn and into the Oval Office at the White House on July 30, 2019.

Column: Will Donald Trump’s ‘go back’ racial strategy backfire?

August 2, 2019 at 6:52 p.m.

President Donald Trump isn't a racist. Just ask him. He'll tell you. "I am the least racist person there is anywhere in the world," he told reporters at the White...

A boy rides his bicycle July 29, 2019, after volunteering to paint a mural outside the New Song Community Church in the Sandtown section of Baltimore.

Column: Will voters fall for Trump’s identity politics?

July 30, 2019 at 2:31 p.m.

I'll say this — and it's not much — about President Donald Trump's incendiary tweet attacks at Rep. Elijah Cummings and the city of Baltimore: At least, for a change,...

Column: Trump budget deal shows the tea party is very dead

July 26, 2019 at 1:30 p.m.

Ah, memories. Remember how presidential candidate Donald Trump grandly promised to eliminate the federal debt in eight years? That's a memory he apparently hopes we forget. You could hear that...

Police remove the body of a Black man killed during the 1919 race riots.

Column: Chicago’s 1919 race riots, and their resonance today

March 11, 2024 at 2:09 p.m.

It's not healthy to repress bad memories, yet we always try. Perhaps that explains why Chicagoans have not memorialized the city's 1919 race riots, which erupted 100 years ago this...

President Donald Trump listens to Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad of Iraq during a White House meeting with victims of religious persecution on July 17, 2019.

Column: Is Trump’s latest race-baiting a 2020 campaign strategy?

July 19, 2019 at 2:03 p.m.

If you were relieved, as I wanted to be, by President Donald Trump's next-day repudiation of the "Send her back!" chant directed at a Somali-born congresswoman during his North Carolina...

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