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Chicago school board president candidates Jessica Biggs, Hilario Dominguez and Victor Henderson participate in a forum at the Copernicus Center on Sept. 29, 2026. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

David Greising: The race for Chicago school board president is about ideas — and character

By David Greising

October 9, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

It will take savvy strategic thinking, backed by the character needed for leadership, to make...

Heidi Stevens: I wish we modeled better care for the young people who are making sense of the world right now

By Heidi Stevens

October 9, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

I hope that when we’re all writing our stories, the ones that are still being...

Far-right activist Jake Lang stands on the back of a truck displaying anti-Muslim messages during a demonstration outside the annual Palestine Fest at SeatGeek Stadium in Bridgeview, Oct. 4, 2026. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Steve Chapman: Republicans are fanning baseless fears about American Muslims

By Steve Chapman

October 8, 2026 at 10:10 a.m.

You might expect that as the memory of the 9/11 attacks and the global war...

Displaced Palestinians walk through a makeshift camp along the beach in Gaza City, on Aug. 10, 2025. According to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plan, the Israel Defense Forces will move into Gaza City and the camps in central Gaza and push the roughly 1 million Palestinians who reside there farther south. (Jehad Alshrafi/AP)

Daniel DePetris: By winging it in Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu is taking a big risk

By Daniel DePetris

August 12, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

The Israeli prime minister is often unsure of the next steps and arrogantly refuses to...

Empty seats belonging to House Democrats during a session convocation in the Capitol, Aug. 5, 2025, in Austin, Texas. (Rodolfo Gonzalez/AP)

Clarence Page: Time for Democrats to get serious about their political future

By Clarence Page

August 10, 2025 at 10:14 a.m.

Are we starting to see the hardball attitude that many frustrated Democrats have been urging...

Hidaya, 31, carries her sick 18-month-old son Mohammed al-Mutawaq, who is displaying signs of malnutrition, inside their tent at the Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, on July 24, 2025. (Omar al-Qattaa/Getty-AFP)

Elizabeth Shackelford: Gaza’s starvation is America’s shame

By Elizabeth Shackelford

August 8, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

It’s time for us all to face the reality that Israel’s government is committing atrocities...

Susie Lee and Laura Baginski at an Early Birds Club dance party in San Pedro, California, on Jan. 10. The two high school friends co-founded Early Birds in 2024. Lee died on Aug. 3, at age 49. (Carissa Woo/Carissa Woo/TNS)

Susie Lee, co-founder of Early Birds dance parties, dies at 49. ‘The spirit and the soul of the whole thing’

By Heidi Stevens

August 7, 2025 at 8:46 a.m.

Susie Lee, 49, died Sunday and is remembered as the founder of a dance club...

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before boarding Air Force One at Lehigh Valley International Airport on Aug. 3, 2025, in Allentown, Pennsylvania. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP)

Steve Chapman: Donald Trump’s grand plan to lose friends and squander influence

By Steve Chapman

August 6, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

In Trump's “America First” calculus, we don’t need friends — because we can get what...

A marijuana joint is rolled at a two-day cannabis festival in Hartford, Michigan, in 2022. (Andy Lavalley/for the Post-Tribune)

Laura Washington: Are dangerous car crashes being perpetuated by cannabis?

By Laura Washington

August 6, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

Billboards hawk cannabis dispensaries and personal injury attorneys in southwestern Michigan. Is weed leading to...

People shout behind the slogan ''Fake Legislators Are Real Communist Bandits'' during a campaign rally to promote recall vote targeting 24 Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmakers in Taipei, Taiwan, on July 24, 2025. (Chiang Ying-ying/AP)

Daniel DePetris: Taiwan’s president is not having an easy time of it at home or with the US

By Daniel DePetris

August 5, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

U.S. decisions to not let the Taiwanese president stop in the U.S. and cancel defense...

A protester holds a sign outside the White House demanding the release to all files related to Jeffrey Epstein in Washington on July 18, 2025. (Alex Wroblewski/Getty-AFP)

Clarence Page: President Donald Trump drives wedges into his own movement

By Clarence Page

August 3, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

The irony for Donald Trump is the fervor of the conviction that Jeffrey Epstein's crimes...

Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein (left) and Bob Woodward speak to members of the media from the steps of Woodward's house June 1, 2005, in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. After 30 years of secrecy Woodward and Bernstein have confirmed former FBI Deputy Director Mark Felt was the "Deep Throat" source who helped unravel the Watergate scandal and bring down President Richard Nixon. (Win McNamee/Getty)

Heidi Stevens: When newsrooms shrink, so does our capacity to know and understand one another

By Heidi Stevens

August 1, 2025 at 1:18 p.m.

Mistrust is being fed to us by corporate conglomerates, crooked politicians and others with a...

Aldermen Timmy Knudsen, 43rd, from left, Maria E. Hadden, 49th, and Bennett Lawson, 44th, speak during a Chicago City Council meeting at City Hall on July 16, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

David Greising: Chicago aldermanic privilege raises its stubborn head again. This time against granny flats

By David Greising

August 1, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

Thanks to pushback from “Bungalow Belt” aldermen, a yearslong push to allow coach houses and...

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