John Kass

On the first day of the Chicago Teachers Union strike — with union leadership rejecting a generous 16-24% pay raise over five years — Mayor Lori Lightfoot read a book...

Watching the Democratic presidential candidate debate — with Elizabeth Warren promising government health care for all without saying she'll tax the middle class to pay for it — was like...

I'm the husband of a teacher and the father of a son who will become a teacher. My uncle was a teacher. We have cousins who are teachers. And despite...

All I wanted was to sit in a comfy leather chair and enjoy a fine maduro cigar. But the fellow who edits this column was on the phone, with supreme...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot, the daughter of a union steelworker, has offered the Chicago Teachers Union a stupendous 16% raise, but it is actually, on average, a 24% bump when step...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, the Democrat campaigning for president, has had two amazing creation myths to choose from. One had her as a Native American, and the other as...

George R. R. Martin, whose novels inspired the worldwide "Game of Thrones" phenomenon, tells me that one of the things he wants to do while in Chicago is go to...

You know that big federal bus that I've been writing about for years now, the one that pulls up and invites corrupt Illinois politicians to get on and sing if...

"We have to strike while the iron is hot," Speaker Nancy Pelosi told her fellow Democrats as she launched an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump's ill-advised phone call to...