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...
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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: Invest in kids’ religious education? By all means! Just not on my dime.
A program in place in Illinois since 2017 diverts tax money that otherwise would have...
Column: Embattled CPS clerk, paralyzed by drunken driver, can stay at her school for one more year. ‘They haven’t really fixed anything.’
On Tuesday afternoon, a few hours after a rally outside of her school, embattled Chicago...
Column: We need our moment of triumphant liberation from the traumas of COVID-19. In every story, endings matter.
On August 25, 1944, the Allied Forces rolled into Paris and the Nazi occupation of...
Column: Djordje Mihailovic comes home to face the Fire, thinking of revenge
At first Djordje Mihailovic tried to use sports cliches on me as he talked of...
Column: Critical race theory, cultural Marxism and wokeness are the greatest threats facing America
Hello, I am a very serious Republican lawmaker and I am here to protect you,...
Column: Congratulations, parents. You made it through the strangest school year ever.
Remember in September when we were embarking on the strangest first day of the strangest...
Column: Right or wrong, Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s discriminatory interview policy was not racist
Mayor Lori Lightfoot may have been politically tone deaf when she announced last week that...
Thompson Center gets zoning change allowing for skyscraper weeks after death of its architect, Helmut Jahn
The City Council on Wednesday approved new zoning for the James R. Thompson Center that...
Column: How the Republican threat to democracy could be our undoing in 2024
The American system of government has been around for 232 years, and it has survived...
Column: The Wuhan story that finally has legs, now that Trump is gone
What are we learning about the American political-media establishment now that the origin story of...