Commentary: Welcome to ‘later,’ Chicagoans. Time to pay the bills.
It's never any fun being a budget hawk. You are the chaperon at the high school dance, the seat-belt nanny on the roller coaster, the diet option on the menu...
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Commentary: Woke capitalism sells out conservatives. It can sell out their opponents too.
When I argued recently that conservatives ought to give up on President Donald Trump, I knew what I would hear back. Religious conservatives were going to point to the Obama-era...
Commentary: Trump’s idea of buying Greenland is far from absurd
President Donald Trump is upset that Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called his interest in purchasing Greenland "absurd." Her dismissive response should have come as no surprise. In 1946, when...
Commentary: ‘The Nickel Boys’ is a searing reminder of the danger of unchecked power
Because of the investigation led by three University of South Florida researchers, and because of exemplary journalism by the Tampa Bay Times, we now have an intensely discomforting but welcome...
Commentary: Move over, Illuminati. The conspiracy against Trump’s economy is massive.
When Barack Obama was president and the economic statistics were good, then-candidate Donald Trump said they were fake. When Trump became president and inherited the exact same stats, they suddenly...
Commentary: Immigrants don’t need a handout, but they do need a welcoming hand
The last time I saw Sil Ganzó, she was beaming as she gave a tour of her after-school care facility for newly arrived immigrant and refugee children. Based on her...
Commentary: If a recession is coming, how will Trump handle it?
President Donald Trump inherited a good economy, and for roughly 2 1/2 years managed (mostly) not to mess it up. As with his business empire, he also somehow convinced much...
Commentary: China doesn’t have the upper hand in Hong Kong. Trump does.
President Donald Trump has warned China that it must respond "humanely" to the protests in Hong Kong if it wants a trade deal, for the first time suggesting that the...
Commentary: Making ‘yes means yes’ the standard for consent to prevent sexual assault is deeply flawed
I once watched a comedian's stand-up routine about discovering the existence of the "silent heart attack" — a heart attack with no outward symptoms. He rushes off to his doctor...
Commentary: Trump administration’s hostility toward Hispanics makes us stronger
The massive immigration-reform marches of 2006 started as a response to, among many other things, pending legislation that would have made unlawfully present immigrants into felons. The marches helped squash...