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Gov. JB Pritzker talks near Trump Tower in Chicago on Aug. 25, 2025, about President Donald Trump's possible plan to deploy National Guard troops. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Heidi Stevens: Chicago is filled with people whose hearts and lives are devoted to solving its violence. Donald Trump has no such devotion

August 29, 2025 at 9:03 a.m.

What often gets lost in the dialogue about Chicago is the tremendous work that takes place day in and day out to prevent violence, to heal trauma.

A pair of ballot drop boxes for voted mail ballots are displayed in a Clark County vote center on Election Day during the Nevada 2024 presidential primary election in Las Vegas, Nevada, on February 6, 2024. (Patrick T. Fallon/Getty-AFP)

Heidi Stevens: Trump’s latest voting threat was inevitable next step in his long history of undermining electorate system

August 22, 2025 at 7:47 a.m.

Donald Trump has been diligently and incrementally chipping away at the American people’s constitutional right to free and fair elections.

After a child leaves the nest, you get the privilege of parenting the new version of them. (Dreamstime)

Heidi Stevens: After a child leaves the nest, you get the privilege of parenting the new version of them

August 15, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

In a few days I’ll drop my daughter at college for the second time. I don't know if it will feel harder or easier.

Susie Lee and Laura Baginski at an Early Birds Club dance party in San Pedro, California, on Jan. 10. The two high school friends co-founded Early Birds in 2024. Lee died on Aug. 3, at age 49. (Carissa Woo/Carissa Woo/TNS)

Susie Lee, co-founder of Early Birds dance parties, dies at 49. ‘The spirit and the soul of the whole thing’

August 7, 2025 at 8:46 a.m.

Susie Lee, 49, died Sunday and is remembered as the founder of a dance club for women that sparked joy and connection.

Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein (left) and Bob Woodward speak to members of the media from the steps of Woodward's house June 1, 2005, in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. After 30 years of secrecy Woodward and Bernstein have confirmed former FBI Deputy Director Mark Felt was the "Deep Throat" source who helped unravel the Watergate scandal and bring down President Richard Nixon. (Win McNamee/Getty)

Heidi Stevens: When newsrooms shrink, so does our capacity to know and understand one another

August 1, 2025 at 1:18 p.m.

Mistrust is being fed to us by corporate conglomerates, crooked politicians and others with a vested interest in hoarding power and hiding truth.

Flood waters left debris including vehicles and equipment scattered in Louise Hays Park on July 5, 2025, in Kerrville, Texas. Heavy rainfall caused flooding along the Guadalupe River in central Texas with multiple fatalities reported. (Eric Vryn/Getty)

Heidi Stevens: As our land literally burns, we don’t owe the president quiet subservience

July 25, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

A country that doesn't allow citizens to criticize their leaders is not a democracy. It's not where liberty or justice flourish.

Nancy Keenan, left, and her daughter, Nora Tonn, pose for a photograph with a portrait of Tonn's son Brooks on Jan. 29, 2020, in Hinsdale, Illinois. Brooks died of cancer in 2017 at age 10. Nora and her husband, Rob, created a foundation in memory of their son. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

Heidi Stevens: Years after his death, Hinsdale boy’s legacy of kindness leads the way

July 18, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

Nora and Rob Tonn launched Brooks Strong, a nonprofit to fund pediatric cancer research and to cover the costs of sports for kids with cancer.

A man holds a flag that reads "Shame" outside the Library of Congress on May 12, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty)

Heidi Stevens: On long list of things being cut, art may seem inconsequential. It’s not

July 4, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

If the first six months of this administration have taught us anything, it’s that we can be appalled by more than one thing simultaneously.

Sometimes some of us need our hurrying to be interrupted by several seconds of kindness, writes Heidi Stevens. (Darren Baker/Dreamstime)

Heidi Stevens: On the hunt for small, kind things — and finding them in some unexpected places

June 27, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

A few seconds of kindness can remind us that we share this world with other people and letting their lives spill over into ours is actually the entire point.

A person holds Progress Pride Flags during the Los Angeles LGBT Center's "Drag March LA: The March on Santa Monica Boulevard" in West Hollywood, California, on April 9, 2023. (Allison Dinner/Getty-AFP)

Heidi Stevens: Shutting down hotline services for LGBTQ+ youth is malice by Trump administration

June 20, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

It’s unconscionable that the physical, mental and emotional health of young people is on the chopping block because of who they are and who they love, writes Heidi Stevens.

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