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A girl walks by an empty lot at 4703 West Madison St. in Chicago's South Austin neighborhood.

Can business end urban misery? Yes, with jobs

May 11, 2019 at 2:51 a.m.

The impoverished and crime-ridden neighborhoods of cities such as Chicago will never recover until corporate America adopts the philosophy of a long-gone titan named "Engine Charlie" Wilson. "Engine Charlie," or...

A Syrian man kisses his daughter shortly after disembarking from a dinghy at a beach on the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing the Aegean Sea from the Turkish coast Nov. 16, 2015.

The real risk is in barring Syrian refugees

May 11, 2019 at 2:47 a.m.

If ever there was a time to open America's door to refugees fleeing the Islamic State terror in the Middle East, it's now. Instead, our gatekeepers, including Illinois Gov. Bruce...

Putin is in a quagmire in Syria — and Russians deserve better

May 11, 2019 at 2:45 a.m.

In the late winter of 2003, a Russian television pundit named Alexei Pushkov told me why President George W. Bush's planned invasion of Iraq would end badly. "It's a huge...

We do a pretty good job of conserving Great Lakes water. Now how can we use it?

A greedy look at Lake Michigan

May 11, 2019 at 2:20 a.m.

For the foreseeable future, if anyone wants to live, work or invest in a place with a reliable supply of fresh water, it's right here, in Chicago and on the...

"Illinnoyed by higher taxes?" was featured on a billboard put up by Indiana officials a few years ago in an effort to lure business across state lines.

Illinois, Indiana should work together instead of competing for jobs

May 11, 2019 at 2:19 a.m.

Behind the rhetorical fusillades between Illinois and Indiana lies an inconvenient fact. These states don't really compete with each other, and neither will thrive until they start acting like the...

Gov. Bruce Rauner is seeking to make Illinois a right-to-work state.

Right-to-work laws won’t save Illinois

August 21, 2019 at 5:28 p.m.

Gov. Bruce Rauner has fired the first salvos in a campaign to turn Illinois into a right-to-work state. Like other right-to-work advocates, he bases his argument on claims that this...

Picture taken on December 22, 1989 shows people from East and West Germany gathering for the opening of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.

25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall

May 11, 2019 at 1:54 a.m.

Twenty-five years ago this autumn, both the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain came down, ending the artificial East-West division of Europe and restoring a vast landscape — six nations,...

Perspective: Saving Chicago

May 14, 2019 at 11:48 a.m.

More than 30 years ago, I wrote a series for the Tribune, called "City on the Brink," on Chicago's descent into Rust Belt torpor. It chronicled a litany of loss...

The power of an ‘Iron Lady’

December 24, 2018 at 1:03 a.m.

It's the hair I remember, or rather, the hairs. Each one just so, combed and placed, impeccably coiffed above the pearls and the immaculate powder blue suit. At 7 a.m.,...

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