David Greising: The race for Chicago school board president is about ideas — and character
It will take savvy strategic thinking, backed by the character needed for leadership, to make...
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Heidi Stevens: I wish we modeled better care for the young people who are making sense of the world right now
I hope that when we’re all writing our stories, the ones that are still being...
Steve Chapman: Republicans are fanning baseless fears about American Muslims
You might expect that as the memory of the 9/11 attacks and the global war...
Clarence Page: What exactly is a ‘Black job,’ Mr. Trump?
Donald Trump's claim in the presidential debate that migrants pouring over the border were taking...
Clarence Page: Five decades after Watergate, the Supreme Court has given us the ‘Imperial Presidency’
Richard Nixon said, "When the president does it, that means it's not illegal." Nearly 50...
Steve Chapman: Supreme Court ignores history to give Donald Trump free rein
To give a reelected President Donald Trump that get-out-of-jail free card is like giving a...
Daniel DePetris: Does the alliance between Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un spell doom for the US?
Officials are right to raise concerns about the partnership between North Korea and Russia. But...
Laura Washington: Women of color in politics are perennial targets
A man has been charged with assaulting State’s Attorney Kim Foxx. She is no stranger...
Clarence Page: The sad reality? Biden needs to make way for another Democratic nominee.
Democrats need a new nominee following Joe Biden's disastrous debate performance. That's not easy for...
Heidi Stevens: Is rolling back no-fault divorce really the way to preserve and protect marriage? A marital historian weighs in
When the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade in June 2022, overturning the constitutional...
Elizabeth Shackelford: Little islands could spur big trouble in the South China Sea
Why such violence over a rocky feature that doesn’t even qualify as land? For the...
Clarence Page: In the ‘Omnicause’, colliding causes can defeat each other’s purposes
Omnicause is a new term in our increasingly complicated world of activism that has advocates...
Daniel DePetris: An Israel-Hezbollah war could be in the making
The only thing standing in the way of another war between Israel and Lebanon is...