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...
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...
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...
Column: Trump has every right to name a Supreme Court nominee. But beware! Political Calvinball is a game both sides can play By Eric Zorn September 22, 2020 at 4:18 p.m. My position remains unchanged from 2016. The U.S. Constitution means what it says. The president...
Column: She walks around the South Loop yarn bombing benches, trees and bike racks. It started as whimsical fun, but now it’s for a good cause. By Heidi Stevens September 22, 2020 at 4:49 p.m. The first time Valerie Sherman yarn bombed a bike rack, she sort of expected to...
Loop yarn bomber By Contributed Content September 22, 2020 at 3:11 p.m. Valerie Sherman and her yarn art.
Column: 200,000 US coronavirus deaths will be Trump’s legacy, and his cynical lies should be his end By Rex W. Huppke September 22, 2020 at 1:59 p.m. The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus reached 200,000 Tuesday. That staggeringly grim count came...
Column: Lightfoot’s pandemic parking ticket relief waffle means anyone can be ‘a public safety threat’ By Rex W. Huppke September 22, 2020 at 1:00 a.m. Back in the early weeks of the coronavirus pandemic, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, recognizing the...
Column: Group says it’s near deal to buy Emmett Till house and turn it into museum By Blair Kamin September 22, 2020 at 4:46 p.m. A plan to transform the South Side house of civil rights icon Emmett Till into...
Massive 3.5-acre rooftop deck opens at Old Post Office. Here’s what it looks like. By Ryan Ori September 21, 2020 at 4:22 p.m. The Old Post Office has opened the nation's largest private rooftop deck, giving office workers...
Column: ‘Why are you at Harvard Law School?’ Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life is a lesson for anyone made to feel they don’t belong. By Heidi Stevens September 21, 2020 at 10:23 a.m. If you've read many of the Ruth Bader Ginsburg appreciations (or watched "On the Basis...
Column: ‘Notorious RBG’ will be remembered for victories yet to come By Clarence Page September 20, 2020 at 12:14 p.m. I hear that Ruth Bader Ginsburg's law clerks had to explain to her that her...
Column: What the GOP would gain by waiting to fill Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Supreme Court seat By Steve Chapman September 19, 2020 at 11:57 p.m. The death of Supreme Court Justice and liberal titan Ruth Bader Ginsburg gives Republicans the...