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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 10, 2026 at 10:01 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...

Ex-President Donald Trump and Rachel Scott, senior congressional correspondent for ABC News, appear during a Q&A at the National Association of Black Journalists annual convention at Hilton Chicago on July 31, 2024. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Laura Washington: Donald Trump tried to court the Black vote in Chicago. He doesn’t deserve it.

By Laura Washington

August 5, 2024 at 12:41 p.m.

The Black journalists convention confirmed why Donald Trump’s bigotry is unacceptable, not just to Black...

Attendees cheer as Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority gathering in Houston, Texas, on July 31, 2024. Harris carefully hit back at former President Donald Trump after he questioned the legitimacy of her identity as a Black woman, saying on Wednesday that he had put on the “same old show” of “divisiveness and disrespect.” (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)

Heidi Stevens: I don’t think the old, sexist playbook is going to work against Kamala Harris. Here’s why

By Heidi Stevens

August 2, 2024 at 10:29 a.m.

I don’t know what will happen in November. But the path that’s taking us there...

Then-Senate President John Cullerton works the room on March 2, 2013, at the Illinois Capitol building in Springfield. (Chris Walker/baiduhai)

David Greising: Merging teachers’ pension funds may help increase CPS revenues

By David Greising

August 2, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

Merging the Chicago Teachers’ Pension Fund into the state fund is a political longshot but...

Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, visits Paschal's in Atlanta on July 30, 2024. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)

Steve Chapman: The false alarms about socialism keep coming as Kamala Harris campaigns

By Steve Chapman

August 1, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

Socialism, according to conservatives, has been perpetually imminent in America for at least 60 years...

El presidente de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, se dirige a sus partidarios fuera del palacio presidencial de Miraflores después de que las autoridades electorales lo declararan ganador de las elecciones presidenciales en Caracas, Venezuela, el 29 de julio de 2024. (Fernando Vergara/AP)

Daniel DePetris: El autoritario presidente de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, se roba otra elección

By Daniel DePetris

July 31, 2024 at 8:07 a.m.

La administración de Maduro hizo todo lo posible para inclinar la elección a su favor.

Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro addresses supporters outside Miraflores presidential palace after electoral authorities declared him the winner of the presidential election in Caracas, Venezuela, on July 29, 2024.

Daniel DePetris: Venezuela’s strongman president, Nicolás Maduro, steals another election

By Daniel DePetris

July 31, 2024 at 8:08 a.m.

This is a tough pill to swallow for the Biden administration.

Vice President Kamala Harris is introduced by Stacie NC Grant, international president of the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, at the group's Grand Boulé at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis on July 24, 2024. (Scott Olson/Getty)

Laura Washington: Black and young folks are stoked about Kamala Harris’ candidacy

By Laura Washington

July 29, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

Vice President Kamala Harris is dashing to take full advantage of the surge in enthusiasm...

Bara'a Ahmed, 20 months old, is treated in the malnutrition unit at a hospital in Port Sudan, Sudan, on April 17, 2024. A devastating civil war is pushing the country toward full-blown famine, according to the international body that measures hunger. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times)

Elizabeth Shackelford: Outside nations try to bring peace to Sudan but also help prolong war

By Elizabeth Shackelford

July 26, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

Some outside players are keeping the war in Sudan moving. But therein lies the key...

Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to supporters during a campaign rally at West Allis Central High School on July 23, 2024, in West Allis, Wisconsin.

Heidi Stevens: ‘Childless cat lady’ attacks on Kamala Harris betray a deep misunderstanding about what it means to be pro-family

By Heidi Stevens

July 25, 2024 at 11:12 a.m.

If you want to elect someone based on how they’ll answer the concerns of parents...

A U.S. Chinook helicopter flies over the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 15, 2021, as diplomatic vehicles leave the compound amid the Taliban advance on the Afghan capital. (Rahmat Gul/AP)

Daniel DePetris: How does Joe Biden’s foreign policy record stack up?

By Daniel DePetris

July 23, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

President Joe Biden was arguably the most experienced foreign policy hand to enter the White...

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