Clarence Page: A botched execution shakes our death penalty presumptions
The botched execution of Christa Pike offers a gross illustration of the cruelty that capital...
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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...
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...
Clarence Page: The congressional circus is back in town, this time over the Biden audiotapes
The Thursday night fights on Capitol Hill featured Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene and Democrat Jasmine...
Heidi Stevens: What we take away from our kids — and ourselves — when we turn into the dress police at prom
Inevitably there is a well-intentioned grown-up (or five) looking past the joy and affection and...
Elizabeth Shackelford: An alarming number of people are suffering displacement across the world
As of mid-2023, 110 million people were forcibly displaced globally. Mass migration can carry destabilization...
Clarence Page: This era’s protesters could stand to ask a few more questions
This era's encampments carry echoes of the "teach-ins" on campuses during the Vietnam War era.
Daniel DePetris: Vladimir Putin has much to celebrate. But not the Russian people.
Vladimir Putin is digging a big hole for the country he claims to love so...
Laura Washington: The only thing I hate more than Chicago winter? Spring.
I am a child of summer. That means that I get to enjoy about 2 ½...
Clarence Page: Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn’t run the government after all
Those of us who believe that Congress should find common ground could derive hope in...
Heidi Stevens: As we send our babies to college, do we do enough to celebrate the village that raised them?
Sending my first-born child to college has me feeling contemplative and raw and, above all...
David Greising: Bears pitch for a lakefront stadium fizzled. Here’s how they can move forward.
In order to take the Bears' lakefront stadium proposal even a first step toward "yes,"...
Clarence Page: DEI on campus and in corporations is due for a change
If the value of a DEI program does not help either the work environment or...