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A young woman reacts as she looks at her damaged home after Russia's night missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Oct. 14, 2026. (Efrem Lukatsky/AP)

Elizabeth Shackelford: Trump’s abhorrent Russian diesel deal defies US laws and won’t lower gas prices

By Elizabeth Shackelford

October 16, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Donald Trump has illegally undone sanctions efforts against Russia. For all of this, Americans won’t...

Saturday Night Live Host Shane Gillis during the monologue on Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026. (Will Heath/NBC/TNS)

Heidi Stevens: Shane Gillis ‘SNL’ opener misses the mark — and the moment

By Heidi Stevens

October 16, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

The most disappointing thing about Shane Gillis’ shopworn, hackneyed, tone-deaf, retrograde, unfunny “Saturday Night Live”...

Former Indiana U,S. Rep. Lee Hamilton, who was co-chair of the Iraq Study Group, in his office at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington on Nov. 24, 2006. (Pete Souza/baiduhai)

John T. Shaw: We need Congress to ponder the long term with a new future-focused group

By John T. Shaw

October 14, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Half a century ago, many lawmakers viewed their responsibilities differently and created a forum to...

President Joe Biden at the White House on March 23, 2021.

Column: Biden’s low profile is a bonus, not a burden

By Steve Chapman

March 24, 2021 at 2:41 p.m.

This is a time of pandemic, economic turmoil and mass shootings, but no issue has...

Brenda Myers-Powell celebrates after a judge ordered prostitution charges against her be vacated. She advocates for survivors of sex trafficking.

Column: There’s plenty of blame to go around in the alleged sexual assaults of a 10-year-old Chicago girl. Let’s not blame the victim.

By Dahleen Glanton

March 24, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

No one spoke up for the 10-year-old girl. At least five grown men allegedly raped...

A CTA "L" Green Line train heads east to the Loop from the Ashland station on March 8, 2021.

Column: To celebrate being fully vaccinated I took a trip. On the ‘L.’

By Mary Schmich

March 24, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

On the day that I was fully vaccinated against COVID-19, I decided to take a...

Column: Biden called for the border surge. And now he owns it.

By John Kass

March 24, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

On the disaster at our southern border, I find myself, oddly, in agreement with Democrats...

Maia Robinson stands March 23, 2021, in the space where a new Evanston Fight for Black Lives community fridge will be installed outside of Childcare Network of Evanston. A previous fridge was destroyed after a pickup truck crashed and destroyed it.

Column: She worked for months to bring a community fridge to Evanston and it was destroyed in a car crash. Then the community stepped up.

By Heidi Stevens

March 24, 2021 at 7:58 a.m.

Maia Robinson woke up to some demoralizing news on Sunday morning. The community refrigerator she's...

Architect Helmut Jahn looks over drawings of his State of Illinois Center in 1980.

Downtown alderman’s move could clear way for one of city’s tallest skyscrapers on Thompson Center site

By Ryan Ori

March 23, 2021 at 6:22 p.m.

A downtown alderman is proposing a zoning change that could clear the way for the...

El director de cine Quentin Tarantino (der.) junto al compositor italiano Ennio Morricone en un evento en Roma en enero de 2016.

You will deserve a participation trophy if you fill out the Tweet of the Week poll

By Eric Zorn

March 26, 2021 at 1:11 p.m.

Instructions: Click the box next to each tweet that amuses you -- no limit to...

Former Death Row inmate Anthony Porter stands outside of the Criminal Courts Building on for another continuation of a hearing on an aggravated battery conviction which was not dropped when he was exonerated for murder.

Column: Answers might be coming at last in the still-controversial 1982 murder case that changed Illinois history

By Eric Zorn

March 23, 2021 at 3:22 p.m.

A unanimous Illinois Supreme Court last week breathed new life into an old quest: the...

Alexi McCammond speaks at Politicon at the Los Angeles Convention Center in October 2018.

Column: Is there room for redemption in ‘cancel culture’?

By Clarence Page

March 23, 2021 at 1:56 p.m.

I am hardly a core member of Teen Vogue magazine's demographic. But I began to...

A migrant child looks through the U.S.-Mexico border wall as a group is processed and taken into custody while trying to sneak across the border March 21, 2021, in Abram-Perezville, Texas.

Column: Biden’s Border Crisis is predictable right-wing babble, a curtain that covers human suffering

By Rex W. Huppke

March 11, 2024 at 1:46 p.m.

Depending on your political leaning and what television station you watch, the current situation at...

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