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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...

A Lake County sheriff's deputy watches protesters outside the Lake County Courthouse on Sept. 25, 2020, in Waukegan. An extradition hearing was being held inside for Kyle Rittenhouse, of Antioch, who is charged in the fatal shootings of Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum in August during protests in Kenosha.

Column: Big man Kyle Rittenhouse now wants to be treated like a boy

By Eric Zorn

September 29, 2020 at 5:16 p.m.

There's grim irony in Kyle Rittenhouse's legal fight to block his extradition to Wisconsin to...

Artist Dubi Kaufmann, left, silk-screens T-shirts and other items with the word "Vote," for people at Dearborn Park in the South Loop neighborhood, on Sept. 26, 2020, in Chicago.

Column: Here’s a political story that won’t make you want to throw things at the wall

By Heidi Stevens

September 29, 2020 at 3:43 p.m.

Dubi Kaufmann is a Chicago artist. His work is irreverent and delightful and occasionally political....

President Donald Trump leaves after speaking during a rally Sept. 25, 2020, at Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport in Newport News, Virginia.

Column: What happens to Trumpism after Trump? Auditions are underway.

By Clarence Page

September 29, 2020 at 1:52 p.m.

As a liberal about most political matters, I am not delighted that President Donald Trump's...

New Nielsen company to have headquarters in Chicago, where research firm began in 1923

By Ryan Ori

September 29, 2020 at 1:37 p.m.

Nielsen is splitting off a portion of its business and creating a new company that...

Dominique Louis drums with Maria Lourdes at the People's Music School in Uptown on May 21, 2019.

Column: Rita Simo, visionary founder of the People’s Music School, has died. ‘Rita always strove for justice.’

By Heidi Stevens

September 29, 2020 at 8:42 a.m.

Rita Simo, the free-spoken and openhearted visionary who founded the People's Music School, died at...

A new book by comedian Michael Ian Black, called "A Better Man," tackles the subjects of men and "toxic masculinity" in an American moment when bullying seems all the rage.

Column: New book looks at masculinity in the age of Trump and our country’s problem with the ‘Real Man’

By Rex W. Huppke

September 29, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

I was scrubbing the upstairs bathroom tub, listening to a track from the 1972 film...

President Donald Trump pats down his hair as he speaks during the Coronavirus Task Force daily briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., on March 30, 2020.

Column: Donald Trump’s $70,000 in hair care expenses puts all previous hair scandals to shame. (Including, obviously, mine.)

By Heidi Stevens

September 28, 2020 at 12:59 p.m.

There are hair scandals, and then there are HAIR SCANDALS. I would know. I weathered...

A forklift maneuvers Sept. 28, 2020, Inside the new Ford materials handling facility at Commerce Park Chicago, on the site of the former Republic Steel plant in the Hegewisch community area.

Ford opens facility in Chicago within sprawling Southeast Side industrial park under development

By Ryan Ori

September 28, 2020 at 2:41 p.m.

Ford Motor Co. has opened a materials handling facility on the city's Southeast Side, anchoring...

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron speaks during a news conference Sept. 23, 2020, to announce a grand jury's decision to indict one of three Louisville Metro Police Department officers involved in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor.

Column: The shooting of Breonna Taylor wasn’t just tragic. It was criminal.

By Dahleen Glanton

September 28, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

Police burst into Breonna Taylor's home in the middle of the night and killed her,...

A memorial near the scene where four men were shot and killed at Nadia Fish & Chicken in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood on April 24, 2017.

Column: The big case you haven’t heard of because Kim Foxx did the right thing

By Eric Zorn

September 25, 2020 at 7:34 p.m.

"A couple of months ago," said Democratic Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx, "we had...

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