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: The insanity of the left’s ‘Let the kids have their knife fights’ argument
One of the more insane developments from the tragic shooting death of knife wielding Ma'Khia...
Column: The clock is ticking at last on paycheck shenanigans in Springfield
State Comptroller Susana Mendoza said the needle on her shenanigans detector jumped dramatically shortly after...
Column: Ready to go back to the gym? Eat inside a restaurant? Fly? Take our Pandemic Self-Assessment Quiz
Are you ready to eat inside a restaurant? Go to a movie in a theater?...
Column: Trying to keep hope alive after the Derek Chauvin verdict
It's easy to be optimistic if you keep your expectations low. That's why, after Derek...
Big changes — shopping, dining, entertainment — coming to Chicago’s landmark Medinah Temple
Following decades as home to events such as the Shrine Circus, and more recently as...
Column: How to protect Lightfoot from cop controversies: Disarm police, give them whistles and call them ‘bobbies’
I'm wholeheartedly, enthusiastically, 1,000% in support of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's plan to impose radical...
Column: Mamas Caucus wants to make Illinois the most mom-friendly state in the nation. ‘Who better to advocate for us than us?’
Josina Morita was the first commissioner on Chicago's Metropolitan Water Reclamation District to have a...
Column: Say it’s so, Joe! Biden should award Presidential Medal of Freedom to Alexander Vindman.
The president of the United States "should have been pinning a medal on (Alexander) Vindman,"...
Column: Why hiring Native Americans to tell their own stories makes for better — and truer — TV and movies
After delays resulting from the pandemic, Martin Scorsese's latest project began filming in Oklahoma this...
Column: What if there’d been good cops like Cariol Horne at the scene of George Floyd’s murder?
It is possible that George Floyd would still be alive if there had been just...