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President Harry S. Truman, left, and the entire American delegation look on as Sen. Tom Connally signs the United Nations Charter in San Francisco on June 26, 1945. (AP)

John Hewko: Civic organizations in Chicago hold a crucial key to the UN’s future

December 22, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

As the U.S. leaves the World Health Organization, Chicago groups that played an important role in the U.N.’s founding must step up.

Rotary Club's founding members were Gus Loehr, from left, Silvester Schiele, Hiram Shorey and Paul P. Harris. (baiduhai archive)

John Hewko: Here’s how to cure the loneliness epidemic, Chicago-style

February 7, 2025 at 2:13 p.m.

Chicago is the birthplace of two of the world’s oldest and largest community organizations, Lions and Rotary.

New York Times correspondent Walter Duranty, center, attends a luncheon given in his honor by the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents at the Hotel Lombardy in New York on April 16, 1936. At left is Kenneth Durant, representative of the Soviet news agency TASS, and at right is A. Bernard Moloney, of Reuters, president of the association. (John Rooney/AP)

John Hewko: With Vladimir Putin interview, Tucker Carlson proves to be the Walter Duranty of our time

February 15, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin will go down in history as propaganda in the service of a tyrant.

A local resident clears debris in her house destroyed as a result of missiles strike to Kherson on Aug. 14, 2023, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine.

Brock Bierman, et al.: To preserve support for Ukraine, we need charities to commit to a code of conduct

August 18, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

The United States despises a tyrant. This is at the core of why Americans opened their hearts and their wallets when Russia attacked Ukraine. To provide humanitarian support, individuals, corporations...

Ukrainians celebrate independence in front of the Communist Party's central committee headquarters on Aug. 25, 1991, in Kyiv.

John Hewko: Ukraine needs continued Western support — and tough love — on its path to true nationhood

March 2, 2023 at 3:10 p.m.

The day the Ukrainian Parliament declared independence on Aug. 24, 1991, I witnessed the historical moment from the gallery with my wife and a group of Western expatriates. Below us,...

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