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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...

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene shouts at reporters as she goes through security outside the House Chamber at Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 12, 2021.

Column: Marjorie Taylor Greene tests GOP’s tolerance for the lunatic fringe it fostered. Now it’s Judgment Day.

By Rex W. Huppke

February 4, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, a newly elected lawmaker and unrepentant fount of dangerous conspiracy theories, has...

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on immigration in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021.

Column: No, President Biden cannot win the Golden Moutza. Happy now?

By John Kass

February 4, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

In their great wisdom, the framers of our ancient Moutzatution decided to exempt presidents from...

Members of Community Justice Initiative and others march Feb. 1, 2021, to protest the police handcuffing and using pepper spray on a 9-year-old girl last Friday in Rochester, N.Y.

Column: Pepper-spraying a 9-year-old girl should never be an option for police

By Dahleen Glanton

February 4, 2021 at 9:56 a.m.

The little girl seemed traumatized even before the police officers handcuffed her, threw her into...

Mifeprex and misoprostol pills are used for medication abortions. Mifeprex is also known as RU-486.

Column: A barrier to abortion can be deadly in a pandemic

By Steve Chapman

February 3, 2021 at 4:00 p.m.

The COVID-19 pandemic has given a big boost to methods of bringing health care to...

Registered nurse Drucella Stingley checks on Felix Ramirez during a chemotherapy session in a designated room where patients who tested positive for COVID-19 can receive cancer care at Prentice Women's Hospital in Chicago on Jan. 29, 2021.

Column: Hospitals are helping cancer patients with COVID-19 continue chemo, even as they fight the deadly virus

By Heidi Stevens

February 3, 2021 at 1:21 p.m.

Reid Grainger, 43, and a dad of three girls, was diagnosed with stage 4 rectal...

Sergio Gomez holds a sign while joining in a birthday parade in 2020 in Berwyn.

Column: One measure of COVID-19: Almost every living American has had a pandemic birthday

By Mary Schmich

February 3, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

By the time this is all over, every American will have celebrated at least one...

Stacey Abrams looks on during a campaign rally with then-President-elect Joe Biden at Pullman Yard in Atlanta on Dec. 15, 2020.

Column: Stacey Abrams deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. Black Lives Matter does not.

By Dahleen Glanton

February 3, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

Stacey Abrams and Black Lives Matter have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Both...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot gives an update on CPS reopening plans at Chicago City Hall on Jan. 31, 2021.

Column: Skyrocketing crime and closed schools. Is this Mayor Lightfoot’s snowpocalypse?

By John Kass

February 3, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

As Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot kowtows to Chicago Teachers Union bosses who defy her plans...

Sriracha became a condiment sensation in the mid-2010s. Also known as rooster sauce because of the label on the Huy Fong Sriracha bottle, this spicy Thai chili sauce was not only used for adding heat to dishes but was also incorporated into beer, potato chips, nuts and other snacks. You can even wear your love for Sriracha on shirts, socks and boxers.

Don’t take the Tweet of the Week poll the wrong way! (Follow instructions)

By Eric Zorn

February 5, 2021 at 11:11 p.m.

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

Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., speaks to the media at the White House on March 6, 2019. Kinzinger is slamming as beyond repugnant President Donald Trump's tweet of a conservative pastor's comment that removing Trump from office would provoke a civil war.?

Column: Adam Kinzinger’s new quest to sober up the conspiracy-drunk Republican Party? Good luck with that.

By Eric Zorn

February 2, 2021 at 3:32 p.m.

Adam Kinzinger asks us to imagine rank-and-file members of his Republican Party in the role...

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