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Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during a community forum in Davenport, Iowa, on Oct. 6, 2015.

Quizzing the Democratic presidential candidates

August 19, 2019 at 12:16 a.m.

On Tuesday evening, millions of us will tune in to the Democratic presidential debate on CNN. We know in advance that candidate Hillary Clinton will be quizzed on her use...

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch, seen in 2013, has sent many recent tweets supporting Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson.

Rupert Murdoch’s ‘bro crush’ on Ben Carson

August 21, 2019 at 5:54 p.m.

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has a "bro crush" on Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson that he's been expressing all over Twitter. On Wednesday Murdoch tweeted: "Ben and Candy Carson...

Activist wants unsolved civil-rights crime law made permanent, expanded

May 23, 2019 at 3:57 a.m.

When legislation passed in 2008 making it easier for the FBI and Justice Department to pursue unsolved civil rights-era murders before 1970, then-U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn stood on the floor...

City Council Black Caucus Chairman Ald. Roderick Sawyer, 6th, center, is flanked by fellow caucus members during a news conference calling for the firing of police Superintendent Garry McCarthy on Oct. 5, 2015.

If city’s top cop were fired, then what?

May 23, 2019 at 3:57 a.m.

I understand that the black aldermen who are calling for Mayor Rahm Emanuel to fire police Superintendent Garry McCarthy are frustrated. As they said Monday during a news conference, they...

Linda Riley, right, 61, leads a prayer circle during a candlelight vigil in Roseburg, Ore., late on Oct. 1, 2015, for the people killed and wounded in a shooting that day at Umpqua Community College.

Mass shootings in poor, urban areas a footnote

May 23, 2019 at 3:57 a.m.

Something struck me last week as President Barack Obama stood in the White House's press briefing room addressing the nation after the mass shooting in Oregon. I wondered what would...

Police investigate the scene where a 34-year-old man was found fatally shot in an alley in the 5200 block of South Menard Avenue on the Southwest Side early on Aug. 22, 2015.

Chicago’s gun violence, finding solutions

May 23, 2019 at 3:56 a.m.

Several readers asked me what's needed to stop the violence in the city. They want solutions. OK, I've been writing about this for years, and I don't pretend to have...

Police canvas the 5300 block of Aberdeen Street, Sept. 29, 2015, where Monday afternoon Patricia Chew and her mother Lolita Wells were fatally shot on their way home from a family party. Chew's 11-month-old son Princeton was injured.

‘Domestic terrorism’ in Chicago streets

May 23, 2019 at 3:56 a.m.

The words that follow are not for the white men who write to me about black-on-black crime, pointing out weekend death tolls. I have nothing to say to you because...

Two men help load the statue for Ethel Lance into her daughter Myra Lance's car. The statues were donated to families of the victims by a landscaping company from Spartanburg, S.C.

Emanuel AME church and the audacity to forgive

May 23, 2019 at 3:56 a.m.

If you know what happened at Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on June 17, you might wonder how a sermon titled "We Still Have Joy" could be delivered here....

Mayor Rahm Emanuel enters the City Council chambers to deliver his budget address on Sept. 22, 2015. The mayor's call for the biggest property tax increase in modern Chicago history will meet some resistance on the council, but will opponents prevail?

Historic tax hike may inspire rare council fight

May 23, 2019 at 3:56 a.m.

Chicago loves a strong mayor, the person who personifies the bully in the bully pulpit. It's the opposite of what voters tend to want in their president. The mayor doesn't...

Pope Francis circles the altar with incense during a Mass in the Plaza of the Revolution in Holguin, Cuba, on Sept. 21, 2015.

The Pope Francis Effect on leadership diversity

May 23, 2019 at 3:56 a.m.

When you're an outsider and get a gig that's traditionally held by people who don't look like you or come from your neck of the world, you might lead in...

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