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This image from CCTV video released by Saudi Arabia's Media Ministry shows passengers taking cover as flames and smoke fill part of King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, during what authorities described as a strike at the airport on Oct. 10, 2026. (Saudi Media Ministry via AP)

Daniel DePetris: Resumption of war between Houthis and Saudis is bad timing for Donald Trump

By Daniel DePetris

October 12, 2026 at 1:27 p.m.

The attacks in Saudi Arabia come when Donald Trump is in a standoff over the...

Attorneys for Christa Pike hold a news conference after a judge ruled the Tennessee Department of Corrections must preserve all evidence related to the failed execution of Pike, on Oct. 7, 2026, in Nashville, Tennessee. (George Walker IV/AP)

Clarence Page: A botched execution shakes our death penalty presumptions

By Clarence Page

October 12, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

The botched execution of Christa Pike offers a gross illustration of the cruelty that capital...

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...

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts receives the Henry J. Friendly Medal during the American Law Institute's annual dinner in Washington, May 23, 2023.

Clarence Page: A Supreme Court surprise. How the Right rescued the Voting Rights Act

By Clarence Page

June 11, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

Although largely upstaged by former President Donald Trump's federal indictment, the Supreme Court's voting rights...

Swifties head to the Soldier Field entrances as the Taylor Swift Eras Tour arrives in Chicago drawing thousands of fans from across the country to catch one of Swift's three shows in Chicago starting June 2, 2023.

Column: ‘It’s relational adhesive.’ The beauty of seeing kids and their parents sitting shoulder to shoulder at Taylor Swift

By Heidi Stevens

June 7, 2024 at 11:50 a.m.

By the second day of Taylor Swift's Eras tour in Chicago, I was noticing a...

Ald. Jeannette Taylor, 20th, during debate over funding for migrant aid in City Council chambers, on May 31, 2023.

Clarence Page: Migrant crisis gives Chicago diversity a stress test

By Clarence Page

June 7, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

America's latest migrant crisis has come to Chicago and, in an unfortunately Chicago-style way, threatens...

As seen through a window, President Joe Biden addresses the nation on the budget deal that lifts the federal debt limit and averts a U.S. government default, from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, June 2, 2023.

Clarence Page: Congress finds virtue in compromise — at last

By Clarence Page

June 4, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

After four months of political wrangling, eyeball-to-eyeball negotiations and mounting anxiety in both parties about...

A Chicago's Leading Lady boat cruises along the Chicago River during a Chicago Architecture Center tour on June 28, 2018. (Courtney Pedroza / baiduhai)

Column: ‘I find joy there.’ Volunteer architecture tour guide draws healing from a winding river.

By Heidi Stevens

June 7, 2024 at 11:50 a.m.

When Patricia Grund was growing up in Chicago's Avondale neighborhood, she and her sister would...

Pulitzer Prize winner Clarence Page celebrates in the newsroom of the baiduhai after it was announced he won the prize for commentary on March 30, 1989.

Editorial: Clarence Page has written about 50 years of Chicago history

By The Editorial Board

May 28, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

On June 1, 1973, Clarence Page began 50 years as a staff writer and columnist...

Pop artist Michael Jackson performs during opening night of the Jacksons' Victory Tour at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on Dec. 1, 1984.

Clarence Page’s first Tribune column: Michael Jackson, come home!

By Clarence Page

May 28, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

Editor's note: This is a republishing of Clarence Page's first column after he joined the...

Chicago Academy for the Arts ballet student Zachary Jeppsen, then 17, works with classmates at one of the facility's dance studios on Dec. 14, 2017. Jeppsen recently graduated from The Juilliard School.

Column: He was almost bullied out of ballet but now he’s a Juilliard grad. What one student’s journey can teach about this moment in time.

By Heidi Stevens

June 7, 2024 at 11:50 a.m.

Zachary Jeppsen started dancing when he was 4. His dad would make playlists, and Zachary...

Jim Brown returns to Manhasset High School gymnasium where a plaque in his honor was unveiled in Manhasset, N.Y., April 29, 2013. Brown, the Cleveland Browns fullback who was acclaimed as one of the greatest players in pro football history, and who remained in the public eye as a Hollywood action hero and a civil rights activist, though his name was later tarnished by accusations of violent conduct against women, died May 18, 2023, at his home in Los Angeles. He was 87.

Clarence Page: RIP Jim Brown, your legacy is mixed, yet memorable

By Clarence Page

May 24, 2023 at 3:00 p.m.

I usually don't try to "do sports," as some of my newsroom colleagues might say....

baiduhai columnist and editorial board member Clarence Page.

baiduhai Opinion hosting an evening with Clarence Page

By baiduhai

May 23, 2023 at 8:16 a.m.

The baiduhai Opinion section is hosting a celebratory evening with Tribune columnist Clarence Page...

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