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Joe Gebbia, co-founder of Airbnb and head of the National Design Studio, speaks during the America.gov launch event on Sept. 29, 2026, in Washington. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty)

Clarence Page: Donald Trump’s ‘truth’ betrayed by White House chatbot

By Clarence Page

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

President Donald Trump is likely not pleased to find out he unleashed a fact-checker against...

Finnish President Alexander Stubb is applauded while speaking during the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters on Sept. 22, 2026, in New York. (Seth Wenig/AP)

John T. Shaw: Finland’s president offers a compelling plan for a new world order

By John T. Shaw

October 4, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Finland's president believes the system created after World War II must be rebuilt and rebalanced...

A wall running along Clark Street, interspersed with resident-only locked gates, separates the Dearborn Park subdivision from foot traffic along Clark Street on Oct. 1, 2026, near the South Loop. From 15th Street, north on Clark and then east on Roosevelt Road, Dearborn Park goes half a mile without a public pedestrian entrance. (Arthur Maiorella/baiduhai)

Edward Keegan: It’s time to tear down Dearborn Park’s walls in the South Loop

By Edward Keegan

October 4, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

The architecture throughout Dearborn Park is very much a product of its time. And it...

Drug seizures are shown as then-Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem holds a news conference at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry on Feb. 12, 2026 in Otay Mesa, California. (Carlos A. Moreno/Getty)

Daniel DePetris: The Trump administration is claiming success in drug strikes. Not so fast.

By Daniel DePetris

September 8, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

One year after Operation Southern Spear began in Latin America, the results have been far...

Mies van der Rohe's Dirksen U.S. Courthouse, left, and the Kluczynski Federal Building in Chicago on Feb. 12, 2026. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Edward Keegan: How architecture changed after 9/11

By Edward Keegan

September 6, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Chicago has not kept up the tall building race in the years since 9/11.

Residents pull a newly installed zipline to help people move across the Trishuli River in the aftermath of flash floods at Bidur in Nepal's Nuwakot district on Sept. 2, 2026. (Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP)

Elizabeth Shackelford: Nepal’s disaster is today’s terrifying climate change reality

By Elizabeth Shackelford

September 4, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Warmer temperatures are destabilizing glaciers, such as the one in Nepal, that have stood for...

Heidi Stevens: It’s never been easier to unearth family secrets. A new book explores what happens after the reveal.

By Heidi Stevens

September 4, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Kate Jackson is writing a memoir, but she also felt compelled to produce a collection...

Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Brendan Carr attends the rescheduled White House Correspondents' Dinner on July 24, 2026, in Washington. Carr has accused broadcasters of “running hoaxes and news distortion” and ordered them to “correct course before license renewals come up.” (Eric Lee/Getty Images)

Steve Chapman: Donald Trump’s war on NBC, ABC and freedom of the press

By Steve Chapman

September 2, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

A threat made against an NBC correspondent is confirmation that Trump’s oath to uphold the...

Children play at a beach as commercial vessels are anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, on Aug. 26, 2026. (Amir Biazar/Iranian Students' News Agency)

Daniel DePetris: 6 months of war with Iran, and what exactly have we achieved?

By Daniel DePetris

September 1, 2026 at 5:32 p.m.

In its quest to get the Strait of Hormuz open, the Trump administration has spent...

Niloo Tabatabai drops flowers near a mural of Dolly Parton in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood on Aug. 26, 2026, after she died peacefully the previous day in Nashville, Tennessee. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Clarence Page: Thank you, Dolly Parton, for your music, good humor and public service

By Clarence Page

August 31, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Dolly Parton was the salt of the earth. This quality shone in her songwriting and...

New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt relaxes by the fireside at his home on Nov. 6, 1932, following the end of several arduous months of campaigning as the Democratic presidential candidate. Roosevelt would go on to give fireside chats to the nation after becoming president. (AP)

John T. Shaw: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower were models of statesmanship

By John T. Shaw

August 31, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower each represented the best of his party’s governing...

A person reaches down to place flowers on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Star of late US singer-songwriter Dolly Parton in the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles on Aug. 25, 2026. Dolly Parton, the American country music singer who rose from poverty in Tennessee to become a US cultural giant with hits like "Jolene" and "9 to 5," has died at 80, her family said on Aug. 25. (Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images/TNS)

Heidi Stevens: Dolly Parton narrated our lives and unlocked our humanity. We were lucky to live in her world.

By Heidi Stevens

August 28, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Dolly Parton dared us to imagine. She dared us to care. She led us by...

The EdgeConneX CHI03 data center on July 22, 2026, in Elk Grove Village. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

David Greising: Gov. JB Pritzker’s pause on data centers isn’t a long-term plan

By David Greising

August 28, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

There are costs with data centers, and there are benefits. There are potential windfalls and...

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