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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, with other officials, holds a news conference at Uvalde High School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 25, 2022. Abbott has responded to the shooting at Robb Elementary School by ordering "in-person, unannounced, random intruder detection audits" at schools.

Column: Parents spent the last 2 years yelling about masks harming kids’ psyches. What about the constant fear of being shot?

June 7, 2024 at 11:51 a.m.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has responded to the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, by ordering "in-person, unannounced, random intruder detection audits" at schools. The idea is to...

Family members who lost a sibling place flowers outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 25, 2022.

Column: To raise children in America is to know the routine: Shooting. Despair. Resignation. Repeat.

June 7, 2024 at 11:51 a.m.

To raise children in America is to live in fear. Fear that one day your child, the person you love and know with an intimacy that can't be captured in...

Yumi Nu attends the Yumi Nu 2022 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Cover Reveal on May 11, 2022, in New York City.

Column: Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover critics don’t care about public health. If they did, they’d read the room.

June 7, 2024 at 11:51 a.m.

I see we're still doing that thing where we look at someone in a swimsuit and pretend we've accessed their full medical history and most recent blood panel. This time...

Edgewater High School students wave flags and signs while walking out of class to protest the "Don't Say Gay" bill in March.

Column: An important win for reason and inclusivity in battle over ‘love is love’ photos in Florida yearbook

June 7, 2024 at 11:51 a.m.

Some cooler heads have prevailed in Florida, where Seminole County School Board members unanimously voted down a proposal to cover an entire high school yearbook page in stickers to hide...

Column: The US is poised to force the birth of babies we have no plan to invest in. Let these powerful statements inform how we spend the coming months.

June 7, 2024 at 11:51 a.m.

I've never written about abortion. I've written a column for more than a decade now — a daily column for many of those years — and I was a reporter...

Stacy Davis Gates Won’t Back Down

July 2, 2026 at 12:57 p.m.

The Chicago Teachers Union’s heir apparent sees herself as a righteous champion of not just educators but of students. And she’s not about to let anyone stand in her way....

Column: The parents of that screaming toddler on your plane? They need this vacation as much as you do, believe me.

June 7, 2024 at 11:51 a.m.

If you've traveled with young kids, you know the look. It's a mixture of contempt and sorrow, loathing and dread. It registers on the faces of your fellow passengers, diners,...

Column: They kept their pain a secret from their friends — until they didn’t. How a daughter’s crisis led one mom to help all of us get better at showing up.

June 7, 2024 at 11:51 a.m.

I met two friends for dinner a few nights ago and we immediately dispensed with the niceties and got down to the real stuff, in the way that friends straddling...

Chris Rock, left, and Will Smith onstage during the 94th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre on March 27, 2022, in Hollywood, California.

Column: An Oscars slap is an odd time to check the nation’s moral compass. But could it point us toward grace?

June 7, 2024 at 11:51 a.m.

Three weeks into Russia's lethal invasion of Ukraine, two years into a pandemic — surrounded, that is, by death on all sides — South Carolina quietly reserved the right to...

Flowers for Dreams co-founders Joseph Dickstein, left, and Steven Dyme celebrate the company's 10-year anniversary and the milestone of $1 million in charitable donations on Feb. 7, 2022.

Column: Chicago florist tracks down woman in Ukraine who’s selling flowers through the war

June 7, 2024 at 11:51 a.m.

In early March, two weeks into Russia's assault on Ukraine, Steven Dyme watched a clip on NPR's Twitter feed about a florist in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, who had just stocked her...

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