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: Pressure from American left for Israeli cease-fire will only strengthen Iran
If Hamas — listed as a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department — launched...
Column: Lollapalooza is back! Navy Pier is reopening! Time to get out and … can we still stay 6 feet apart?
Lollapalooza is back! Navy Pier is back! After more than a year of COVID-19 restrictions...
Column: Mayor Lori Lightfoot is correct: Newsrooms need more diversity
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot shocked the nation on Wednesday when she announced that she would...
Illinois reopens
Events return and venues reopen as Chicago COVID-19 mask restrictions ease.
Column: After ‘a lot of soul searching,’ Dorri McWhorter is leaving YWCA for Chicago’s YMCA — the group’s first woman, first Black CEO
Dorri McWhorter, the CEO of YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago, is leaving the organization at the...
Column: The beginning of the end for abortion rights
In one of his 19th-century novels, Anthony Trollope depicts a protagonist who learns that his...
Column: McConnell, GOP oppose Jan. 6 commission, and so do we, the brothers of Gamma Omega Pi
Hi everybody, my name is Kevin, and as one of the leaders of Gamma Omega...
Lollapalooza is a ‘game changer’ but Chicago hotel industry wants $75M in aid; two big downtown hotels plan to reopen in June
Two of the largest Chicago hotels that closed early in the COVID-19 pandemic are preparing...
Column: Goodbye to the year of living day by day. For better and worse, it’s time to plan again.
Not long into the pandemic, whenever someone asked me "How are you?" I took to...
Column: Politics of fear: Democratic mask neurosis and the Republican mushroom cloud
Many Republicans are rightfully gleeful over the mask dysphoria being suffered by MSNBC's Rachel Maddow,...