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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 woman walks near the Crescent Garden at the Chicago Botanic Garden last summer.

Column: The Chicago Botanic Garden, a good chair and a poem called ‘Hope’: 9 things to like right now

By Mary Schmich

August 28, 2020 at 7:34 p.m.

Every now and then I make a list of things I like. Here's one for...

A protester walks past a burning building during protests on Aug. 24, 2020 in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Column: Memo to the left: Stop it with the bad trouble

By Eric Zorn

August 29, 2020 at 1:12 p.m.

Thursday afternoon, the Chicago Teachers Union tweeted out its approval of a video showing a...

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump listen as Trace Adkins sings the national anthem Aug. 26, 2020, following Vice President Mike Pence's keynote address at Fort McHenry.

Column: Trump describes an America so scary, I wonder who’s president

By Clarence Page

August 28, 2020 at 3:56 p.m.

For the longest time, President Donald Trump seemed all but unable to figure out who...

President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence stand on stage during the first day of the 2020 Republican National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Aug. 24, 2020.

Column: Mike Pence debases the vice presidency. Kamala Harris can elevate it.

By Steve Chapman

August 28, 2020 at 4:42 p.m.

Loyalty to Donald Trump demands more than many people can muster. One Cabinet member and...

A social distancing sign marks a chair at Cushman & Wakefield global commercial real estate services, July 17, 2020, in Chicago.

Column: Meet the secret weapon for fighting the pandemic: Interior architects

By Blair Kamin

August 28, 2020 at 3:21 p.m.

Almost exactly 40 years ago, I got my first job in architecture: Not as an...

President Donald Trump reacts Aug. 27, 2020, as he stands with his family members after delivering his acceptance speech for the Republican presidential nomination on the South Lawn of the White House.

Column: The RNC’s message: Biden’s America will look like Trump’s America, so … don’t elect Biden?

By Rex W. Huppke

August 28, 2020 at 11:23 a.m.

President Donald Trump and members of the political party he has transformed into a cult...

Flowers sit inside a destroyed city vehicle outside the Kenosha County courthouse after protesters and officers clashed the previous evening following the shooting of Jacob Blake by a police officer on Aug. 26, 2020.

Column: Law and order only work if you apply them equally. That’s not what happens when unarmed Americans keep getting shot.

By Heidi Stevens

August 28, 2020 at 9:38 a.m.

It's not law and order to shoot a man seven times in the back. It's...

Indiana Commerce Secretary Jim Schellinger hobnobs during the Northwest Indiana Forum's Ignite the Region initiative on Sept. 13, 2018.

Column: Indiana is open for business as the Illinois Exodus continues

By John Kass

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

Many Illinois business owners — those who provide jobs and tax revenue in a state...

President Donald Trump walks to the stage after Vice President Mike Pence delivered a speech on the third day of the Republican National Convention at Fort McHenry National Monument in Baltimore on Aug. 26, 2020.

Column: ‘America, America, God sheds His grace on me’: A convention TrumPoem

By Mary Schmich

August 28, 2020 at 10:44 a.m.

This is the latest in my occasional series of TrumPoems chronicling the presidency of Donald...

A Lake County Sheriff's deputy watches protesters outside of 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 shooting to death Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum last month during protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Column: Kenosha could spark an armed escalation if activists on the left embrace their right to wield guns

By Eric Zorn

August 27, 2020 at 6:05 p.m.

The shooting deaths of two protesters in Kenosha Tuesday night marked a disturbing escalation in...

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