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‘Shoot first, think later’ policing must go

May 25, 2019 at 1:04 p.m.

Before he announced the grand jury's decision regarding the Cleveland police officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice, Cuyahoga County prosecutor Timothy McGinty warned that the outcome "will not...

Former NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal appears on the "Today" show set on Tuesday, June 16, 2015, in New York. Dolezal was born to two parents who say they are white, but she chooses instead to self-identify as black.

Hot 2015 words reveal an ‘-ism’ nation obsessed with identity

May 23, 2019 at 9:06 p.m.

What's the word? The "Word of the Year" at Oxford Dictionaries is not even a word. It is an emoji, a digital image that is used in text messages to...

Two of a kind: Donald Trump and ‘Pootie-Poot’

August 21, 2019 at 6:05 p.m.

We should not be too surprised by the unlikely bromance between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. After all, the audacious billionaire and the Russian autocrat have a lot in common....

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at the Republican Jewish Coalition Presidential Forum in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015.

GOP advice: To top Trump, tap into Trumpism

May 23, 2019 at 9:06 p.m.

Establishment Republicans have a problem: Donald Trump isn't going away. After five months and going strong as the party's front-runner for president, the Grand Old Party's elites have figured out...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, center, joins a group of African-American religious leaders, including the Rev. Darrell Scott, second from left, to speak to reporters in New York on Nov. 30, 2015.

Just call him Diversity Donald

June 24, 2019 at 6:11 p.m.

Awk-ward. Shortly after Donald Trump's presidential campaign team announced that he would be endorsed by a group of 100 black pastors, several pastors vigorously protested that they were not endorsing...

A person is detained by police along North Michigan Avenue on Nov. 27, 2015, during a demonstration billed as a "narch for justice" on Black Friday.

Is the ‘Chicago Way’ a kill-and-cover-up culture?

May 25, 2019 at 1:04 p.m.

When public officials refuse to release a video that shows alleged misconduct by a police officer, you should only expect the worst. That's particularly true in Chicago, where one "bad...

‘President Trump’? Get used to it

August 21, 2019 at 6:03 p.m.

President Donald Trump? Surely I jest? I wish. The billionaire presidential candidate has been riding atop the Republican primary polls for four months. He constantly defies the conventional rules of...

A Syrian refugee child sleeps in his father's arms while waiting at a resting point to board a bus, after arriving from the Turkish coast to the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos.

Fear Syrian refugees? History says no

May 23, 2019 at 9:06 p.m.

America's refugee screening process is so tight — only about half are accepted after a process that can take two years or more — that it probably would be easier...

Migrants protest their wait for buses in Istanbul to the Turkey-Greece border on Sept. 15, 2015.

Islamic State wants you to reject the Syrian refugees

August 21, 2019 at 6:01 p.m.

Remember how news photos of a drowned 3-year-old Syrian boy in September put new pressure on the West to welcome more refugees? That was then. Last week's attacks in Paris...

Members of the student protest group Concerned Student 1950 hold hands at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Mo., after the announcement that System President Tim Wolfe would resign. The football team and others on campus had been in open revolt over his handling of racial tensions at the school.

Free speech vs. racial respect? Why not both?

May 23, 2019 at 9:06 p.m.

Two important principles are clashing on university campuses these days from Yale to Missouri and beyond. On one side we have the principle of free expression. On the other, the...

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