John T. Shaw: We need Congress to ponder the long term with a new future-focused group
Half a century ago, many lawmakers viewed their responsibilities differently and created a forum to...
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Daniel DePetris: Resumption of war between Houthis and Saudis is bad timing for Donald Trump
The attacks in Saudi Arabia come when Donald Trump is in a standoff over the...
Clarence Page: A botched execution shakes our death penalty presumptions
The botched execution of Christa Pike offers a gross illustration of the cruelty that capital...
Column: Chicagoan who’ll be honored by U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum warns of rising hatred: ‘It has become normal to hear it.’
Joe Gutman, the son of Holocaust survivors, grew up in Rogers Park with his parents...
Column: No, those aren’t whips the Border Patrol is using while dealing with Haitian migrants
A picture, as an old saying (almost) goes, is worth 10,000 mixed messages. That's what...
Column: Is Benet Academy in Lisle posting an ‘LGBTQ not welcome’ sign?
Officials at Benet Academy, a Catholic school in Lisle, are accused of the following: Offering...
Column: Larry Nassar scandal shows how the ‘twisties’ can take different forms
As I watched Simone Biles and three other U.S. Olympic gymnasts tell a Senate committee...
Column: We can applaud gymnasts’ courage, but until we right the world, our plaudits are meaningless
The day before gymnasts Aly Raisman, Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney and Maggie Nichols testified before...
Column: Why do unvaccinated people in Florida — land of predictable tragedies — keep dying from COVID-19?
For some reason, unvaccinated people who speak out loudly in opposition to vaccines and masks...
Column: California recall election was ‘rigged’ until it wasn’t. Trump’s hucksterism is now a GOP template.
Now listen, I'm just a mild-mannered Midwestern newspaper columnist, but after watching what happened in...
Column: Did Black Lives Matter trigger the Jan. 6 Capitol attack? That’s a stretch.
I appreciate constructive criticism, even when I think the critic is full of prunes. But...
Column: Amid ivermectin hysteria, QAnon supporter Veronica Wolski died of COVID-19. But conspiracies helped kill her.
Veronica Wolski was a believer in the deeply unhinged QAnon conspiracy theory. When it came...
Column: #MeToo is not like the ‘end of Apartheid for us women’ — Hollywood can’t pretend #MeToo harassment is a thing of the past
Writer-director Jane Campion, who won an Oscar in 1994, premiered her latest film at the...