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President Donald Trump, right, meets with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, president of Ukraine, left, for bilateral talks at Beştepe Presidential Compound during the NATO Summit on July 8, 2026, in Ankara, Turkey. (Win McNamee/Getty)

Daniel DePetris: Donald Trump’s fight with Volodymyr Zelenskyy reveals a deeper frustration

By Daniel DePetris

October 20, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

The likely driver for the latest fight over Ukraine is that the war Donald Trump...

Comedian and political satirist Bill Maher waves to the stage during the 27th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor celebrating Maher on June 29, 2026, in Washington. (Kevin Wolf/AP)

Clarence Page: Beware the charm of our rising chatbots

By Clarence Page

October 19, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Besides the existential risks of artificial intelligence, consider how AI chatbots insinuate themselves in the...

The new Cragin Park Fieldhouse stands Oct. 15, 2026, in Chicago’s Belmont Cragin neighborhood. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Edward Keegan: Is the minimalist fieldhouse in Chicago’s Cragin Park architecture or just a building?

By Edward Keegan

October 19, 2026 at 8:09 a.m.

The Cragin Park Fieldhouse expresses a clear architectural character with its exposed steel structure. I...

President Donald Trump walks out of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Oct. 5, 2020, after receiving treatment as a COVID-19 patient.

Column: Get well, President Trump! But not too quickly, please.

By Eric Zorn

October 6, 2020 at 4:49 p.m.

No, sorry, I'm not wishing President Donald Trump a speedy recovery from COVID-19. Not because...

President Donald Trump gives a thumbs-up upon returning to the White House from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Oct. 5, 2020.

Column: COVID-19 patient Donald Trump’s sunny outlook casts gloomy shadows

By Clarence Page

October 6, 2020 at 3:01 p.m.

Three days after he quietly slipped away to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for...

Column: Was it realistic to expect college students to follow COVID-19 protocols? The science suggests no.

By Heidi Stevens

October 6, 2020 at 1:39 p.m.

Back in June, leading adolescent brain researcher Laurence Steinberg wrote a New York Times op-ed...

Some of the boxes of food distributed on Sept. 29, 2020, by the Greater Auburn-Gresham Development Corp. in Chicago came from a federally funded program and contained a letter from the White House bearing the signature of President Donald Trump.

Column: Trump keeps finding new ways to celebrate himself

By Steve Chapman

October 5, 2020 at 2:32 p.m.

Donald Trump left his hospital suite to take a victory lap on Sunday, and Monday...

U.S. President Donald Trump offers a thumbs up to his supports from a motorcade outside Walter Reed Medical Center during his treatment for COVID-19 on Sunday, Oct. 4, 2020 in Bethesda, Maryland.

Column: Trump puts Secret Service agents at risk with COVID Car Ride — but relax, it was medically necessary

By Rex W. Huppke

October 5, 2020 at 12:22 p.m.

As President Donald Trump continues to battle COVID-19, a number of questions have come up...

President Donald Trump, center, stands with Judge Amy Coney Barrett during a news conference to announce Barrett as his nominee to the Supreme Court, in the Rose Garden at the White House on Sept. 26, 2020, in Washington, D.C.

Column: We owe each other better than the toxic, tragic self-interest on display at that Rose Garden ceremony

By Heidi Stevens

October 5, 2020 at 11:38 a.m.

In March, I wrote about a Lincoln Park couple who canceled their big, formal wedding...

Several people who attended a nomination ceremony for Judge Amy Coney Barrett at the White House on Sept. 26, 2020, including President Trump, have since tested positive for COVID-19.

Column: Trump supporters risk their lives for him. Most wouldn’t get the same health care he’s getting.

By Dahleen Glanton

October 5, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

It was the hottest ticket of the year for conservatives. They were inching toward the...

Adam Hollingsworth, aka the Dreadhead Cowboy, rides his horse in local lanes of the Dan Ryan Expressway on Sept. 21.

Column: Golden Moutza doesn’t taste like apples, carrots or sugar cubes

By John Kass

October 2, 2020 at 7:16 p.m.

Every month around Golden Moutza of the Month time there's always somebody who can't pick...

Judge Blanche Manning, photographed at the Women's Bar Association in Chicago on Feb. 20, 1990. Manning, a former federal judge who died recently at 85, was the first African American woman elected to the Illinois Appellate Court.

Column: From Chicago’s South Side to a seat on the federal court: RIP to a trailblazing judge who played a sweet sax

By Mary Schmich

October 2, 2020 at 6:01 p.m.

Blanche Manning died in late September without the public fanfare typically offered to trailblazers, which...

Cook County state's attorney candidate Judge Pat O'Brien holds a news conference at the corner of Division Street and Central Avenue, the site of a CPD "Operation Split Corners" drug bust, Oct. 1, 2020.

Column: Kim Foxx is taking a big risk ducking TV debates with challenger Pat O’Brien

By Eric Zorn

October 2, 2020 at 5:23 p.m.

It's not uncommon for incumbents to decline to debate their challengers. Debates have a way...

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