Elizabeth Shackelford: Trump’s abhorrent Russian diesel deal defies US laws and won’t lower gas prices
Donald Trump has illegally undone sanctions efforts against Russia. For all of this, Americans won’t...
Home > Reviews
Columnists
Heidi Stevens: Shane Gillis ‘SNL’ opener misses the mark — and the moment
The most disappointing thing about Shane Gillis’ shopworn, hackneyed, tone-deaf, retrograde, unfunny “Saturday Night Live”...
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...
Column: It’s summer. Again. Make your summer resolutions before it’s gone again.
And the summer's come again. That's a line from Jennifer Warnes' song "Lights of Lousianne,"...
Column: Sports, television and the precious, fleeting signposts of our lives
My mother-in-law spent one of the last nights of her life the same way she...
Column: With the wizard gone, does Illinois political culture change?
Those corruption-hunting feds are now in the belly of the beast of Illinois, rooting around...
Column: A Cook County commissioner’s compelling new challenge to renaming Columbus Day as Indigenous Peoples Day
Normally I don't open an email when the subject header begins, "Statement from ..." Dozens...
‘The Chi’ producer plans $60 million film production studio, with goal of creating thousands of jobs in South Shore
The producer of the television series "The Chi" is spearheading plans for a film studio...
Column: The damaging protectionism of Trump — and Biden
When he became president, Joe Biden summarily reversed his predecessor's policies on a range of...
Column: Loyola Academy stirs up an unexpected lesson in what race, privilege and education really mean
Education or indoctrination? That's the big question at the core of the hullabaloo over "critical...
Column: One mom’s appreciation of the creators behind ‘Chicka Chicka Boom Boom’ and ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar,’ two sparks that ignited countless imaginations
In the span of two days, the world lost two brilliant sparks that ignited countless...
Column: 13-year-old homicide victim Xavier Quiroz had no political utility. And now family says ‘We’re gone’
If only Xavier Quiroz, a 13-year-old special needs student, had been useful to Chicago's political...
Column: That time in France when Sen. John Warner hoisted me on his shoulders. And no one took a photo.
Remember back a long, long time ago, before the cellphone and the selfie, before Instagram...