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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...

Don’t overthink it, just cast your votes in the Tweet of the Week poll!

By Eric Zorn

September 4, 2020 at 3:33 p.m.

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

Airickca Gordon-Taylor, center in purple, and the Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., both cousins of Emmett Till, speak outside Roberts Temple Church of God In Christ in Chicago on Aug. 28, 2015. They led a motorcade to Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the death of Emmett Till. Till's funeral took place at Roberts Temple in September 1955.

Column: Emmett Till house poised to take first step toward official landmark status

By Blair Kamin

September 2, 2020 at 11:40 a.m.

The Chicago house of Emmett Till, whose brutal murder in Mississippi helped spark the civil...

Omar Muhammad, formerly known as Omar Saunders, from left; Marcelias Bradford; Larry Ollins; and his cousin Calvin Ollins at the Daley Plaza in Chicago on Aug. 27, 2020. The four were arrested and convicted as teens in the abduction, rape and murder of a woman. Advanced DNA testing more than a decade later cleared all four.

Column: Patrick O’Brien needs to own up to his role in bungled case

By Eric Zorn

September 1, 2020 at 4:50 p.m.

Much of forensic science was maddeningly inexact in the late 1980s when four West Side...

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden gestures before boarding a plane at New Castle Airport in New Castle, Delaware, en route to speak at a campaign event in Pittsburgh on Aug. 31, 2020.

Column: Joe Biden’s familiar straight talk faces Donald Trump’s doublespeak

By Clarence Page

September 1, 2020 at 2:39 p.m.

He's alive! After watching his widely praised speech at the socially distanced Democratic National Convention,...

Column: Emmett Till house poised to take first step toward official landmark status

By Blair Kamin

September 1, 2020 at 1:47 p.m.

The Chicago house of Emmett Till, whose brutal murder in Mississippi helped spark the civil...

The lobby of the historic Palmer House Hilton at 17 E. Monroe St. in Chicago is seen in 2014. The owner of the hotel has been sued for almost $338 million in missed loan payments.

Owner of Palmer House Hilton sued for $338 million unpaid loan

By Ryan Ori

September 1, 2020 at 10:08 a.m.

The owner of the historic Palmer House Hilton has been sued for almost $338 million...

Black Lives Matter demonstrators watch a caravan of Trump supporters drive through Portland, Oregon, Aug. 29, 2020.

Column: Trump defends Kenosha shooter charged with homicide as Biden decries violence ‘on the left or the right’

By Rex W. Huppke

August 31, 2020 at 6:54 p.m.

After weeks of patently false claims that Joe Biden hasn't condemned violence and looting stemming...

President Donald Trump speaks on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020, from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention.

Column: The GOP of Honest Abe is not the GOP of Lying Trump

By Dahleen Glanton

August 31, 2020 at 9:17 a.m.

During the past two weeks, both political parties made their case for why African Americans...

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 25: U.S. President Donald Trump walks to the White House residence after exiting Marine One on the South Lawn on June 25, 2020 in Washington, DC. President Trump traveled to Wisconsin on Thursday for a Fox News town hall event and a visit to a shipbuilding manufacturer. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Column: Trumpcare is — wait for it! wait for it! — still coming

By Eric Zorn

August 29, 2020 at 10:27 a.m.

"We're signing a health care plan within two weeks," President Donald Trump said six weeks...

People attend to a wounded person, during a clash with law enforcement, on Aug. 25, 2020 in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Column: Democrats play with matches. Does Joe Biden get burned?

By John Kass

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

The Democrats have been playing with fire for months like foolish, thoughtless kids playing with...

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