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President Donald Trump leads a prison reform roundtable in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, on Jan. 11, 2018.

Vulgar remark removes all doubt: Trump is a racist

May 31, 2019 at 4:25 p.m.

OK, can we finally stop beating around the bush and say outright that President Donald Trump is a white supremacist? As our nation heads into the Martin Luther King Jr....

Oprah Winfrey, shown in October 2017, gave an electrifying speech at the Golden Globe Awards that inspired a call for her to run for president.

Don’t run, Oprah. Instead, teach.

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

Do we really need another politically inexperienced billionaire in the White House? Even if it’s Oprah? That’s the big question looming over media superstar Oprah Winfrey after the electrifying and...

Marijuana is shown on display at Harborside marijuana dispensary in Oakland, Calif., on Jan. 1, 2018. When U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has green-lighted federal prosecutors to pursue violators of federal marijuana laws.

Team Trump pushes back the clock on legal pot

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

An ill-advised order by Attorney General Jeff Sessions makes federal marijuana prosecutions easier in states that have legalized it. It reminds me of H.L. Mencken’s famous definition of Puritanism: “The...

Chicago had 670 killings in 2017, a roughly 16 percent drop in homicides compared with 2016, when 792 were killed.

Trump’s misguided ideas about Chicago crime

May 23, 2019 at 9:10 p.m.

It’s way too early to break out the Champagne, but Chicago found some good news for a change in its year-end homicide count. You’ll know the news is really great...

Special lanyards for ticketholders wait for them to file into the TCL Chinese Theatre for the opening night showings of Star Wars: The Last Jedi in Hollywood, California, on December 14, 2017.

‘Star Wars’ turns into culture wars, the fan-time menace

May 23, 2019 at 9:10 p.m.

Has “Star Wars” become too politically correct? The question has been raised before, as George Lucas’ 40-year-old franchise has become more racially and gender diverse in its casting — and...

Protesters walk during the Women's March on Washington on Jan. 21, 2017.

Awards for best, worst of 2017: A year of living nervously

May 23, 2019 at 9:10 p.m.

It’s time to reopen my old reporter’s notebooks and see who among last year’s national newsmakers deserves a lump of coal or a sugarplum for being naughty or nice. Once...

Participants march against sexual assault and harassment at the #MeToo March in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles on Sunday, Nov. 12, 2017.

What next for #MeToo, America?

May 23, 2019 at 9:10 p.m.

Now that the #MeToo movement has received its richly deserved recognition through Time magazine’s Person of the Year feature, I hope Tarana Burke is not erased from the movement to...

Victims of sexual harassment, sexual assault, sexual abuse and their supporters protest during a #MeToo march in Hollywood, California on Nov. 12, 2017.

Has a sexual harassment backlash begun?

May 23, 2019 at 9:10 p.m.

Two months into the scandals and national reckoning that followed charges of sexual abuse and harassment against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, the #MeToo movement that spurred it along appears to...

President Donald Trump discusses tax reform at the St. Charles Convention Center on Nov. 29, 2017, in St. Charles, Mo.

Trump’s chaos theory keeps us guessing

May 23, 2019 at 9:10 p.m.

Why, I am often asked, do media cover President Donald Trump so much? For one thing, the answer is in the question: He’s the president. Presidents get covered a lot...

Trump’s petty feuds with Warren, LaVar Ball are the true offense

May 23, 2019 at 9:10 p.m.

Here’s a question that, back in the days when we had a president who cared about such quaint old traditions as manners, we never thought we would be asking ourselves:...

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