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Former first lady Michelle Obama, from left, former President Barack Obama, former Vice President Al Gore and former President George W. Bush arrive for Sen. John McCain's memorial service at Washington's National Cathedral on Sept. 1, 2018.

Why the Bush-Obama #candygate moment matters

August 22, 2019 at 5:09 a.m.

Back in 2010, still early in Barack Obama’s presidency, a small group of Minnesota businessmen came up with a mischievous idea. They rented billboards to display a picture of former...

A vehicle drives into a group of protesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 12, 2017. The nationalists were protesting plans by the city of Charlottesville to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

Trump predicts violence from the left in November. That’s rich.

May 31, 2019 at 4:20 p.m.

Is he serious? Does President Donald Trump really think there will be “violence” from the left if Republicans lose control of Congress in the November midterms? Isn’t the whole point...

The flag is flown at the White House at full-staff on Monday morning, less than 48 hours after Sen. John McCain's death. After complaints, the White House returned the flag to half-staff in accordance with tradition.

Trump doesn’t let death interrupt his feud with McCain

May 31, 2019 at 4:24 p.m.

If you thought something as consequential as death would get in the way of President Donald Trump’s long-running feud with the late Sen. John McCain, you didn’t know how petty...

Tanika Humphries, center, talks with the press on Aug. 5, 2018, during a vigil for her daughter, Jahnae Patterson, 17. Patterson was killed in an attack in Chicago's Lawndale neighborhood that wounded five others, including an 11-year-old boy.

A cure for Chicago violence right under our noses

May 31, 2019 at 4:23 p.m.

Cities have multiple personalities. I am reminded of that with bracing clarity by what some Chicagoans are calling the “weekend from hell.” It was the weekend in which the mammoth...

Don’t mock the trolls; they enjoy it too much

May 31, 2019 at 4:23 p.m.

Racial eruptions have become so common in the Trump era that they can exhaust one’s capacity to remain perpetually outraged. Almost. Yet, as a new twist on these tribally turbulent...

David Reinert holds a large "Q" sign while waiting in line on to see President Donald Trump at his rally Aug. 2, 2018, at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes Barre, Pa.

QAnon — a sign that reality is too much to handle?

May 31, 2019 at 4:20 p.m.

“Reality is for people who can’t handle drugs,” according to an old hippie slogan from the ’60s. Today I would update that line to say that reality is for people...

Is comedy broken? A lesbian comic helps pick up the pieces

May 31, 2019 at 4:23 p.m.

This has been a summer of discontent in stand-up comedy circles, despite the abundance of laughable material that President Donald Trump’s White House continues to provide. You could hear that...

President Donald Trump speaks at the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States National Convention on July 24, 2018, in Kansas City, Mo.

Trump brings a new edge to Reagan’s ‘South Succotash’

May 31, 2019 at 4:21 p.m.

President Donald Trump expressed a familiar beef in his recent travels: The “fake news” media won’t cover his fake news. “What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s...

An Uber car in driverless mode waits in traffic during a test drive in San Francisco in 2016.

From horseless carriages to driverless cars — are you ready?

May 31, 2019 at 4:22 p.m.

Shortly after the first automobile arrived in the small but grandly named village of Ohio City, Ohio, an old story goes, someone bought a second car — which soon collided...

Former U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during the 2018 Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture at the Wanderers cricket stadium in Johannesburg on July 17, 2018.

Obama warns against ‘identity politics’ — a message for both parties

May 31, 2019 at 4:26 p.m.

When Barack Obama, in his first major speech since his presidency, decried today’s “utter loss of shame among political leaders,” did anyone not know whom he was talking about? No,...

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