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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...

President Joe Biden, center, talks with U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers as he visits the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, on Jan. 8, 2023.

Clarence Page: Has Biden bungled the border crisis? He’s not alone.

By Clarence Page

January 13, 2023 at 6:02 p.m.

Joe Biden's White House won't call it a crisis, but it's not exactly nothing either....

David Ambroz is the author of a new memoir, "A Place Called Home."

Column: ‘As a child, if I died and my family died, no one would care.’ Author sheds light on childhood poverty, homelessness.

By baiduhai

January 13, 2023 at 11:12 a.m.

David Ambroz's gorgeous new memoir, "A Place Called Home," begins in Manhattan at Christmas. He...

U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries speaks after U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy was elected House speaker at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 7, 2023, in Washington.

Clarence Page: Is Hakeem Jeffries the next Barack Obama? Don’t rush him

By Clarence Page

January 10, 2023 at 5:32 p.m.

No, New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries does not want to be the next Barack Obama,...

Members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, from left, Rep. Dan Bishop, D-N.C., Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, and Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., meet with reporters in Statuary Hall to talk about their opposition to voting for Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., to be speaker of the House at the Capitol in Washington Jan. 6, 2023.

Clarence Page: Today’s Republicans need to get out of their own way

By Clarence Page

January 6, 2023 at 5:37 p.m.

As the House moved past a dozen ballots in failed attempts to elect California Republican...

People arrive for work at the rehabbed Old Post Office in Chicago in March 2022. Office life as we used to know it has been thoroughly shaken up.

Clarence Page: Back to ‘abnormal’? Chicago can come back after the pandemic is gone.

By Clarence Page

January 3, 2023 at 5:30 p.m.

Pardon me if I glance at the top of this column just to remember what...

Venezuelan immigrant Stephanie holds her daughter Hannie, 10 months, after spending the night camped along the U.S.-Mexico border fence on Dec. 22, 2022, in El Paso, Texas. They traveled to the U.S. border from Chile, where Hannie, a Chilean citizen, was born.

Clarence Page: What’s the Supreme Court’s Title 42 case about? Hint: It’s not the pandemic.

By Clarence Page

March 11, 2024 at 1:11 p.m.

Amid the constant partisan fussing, feuding and fighting in Washington these days, I was gratified...

The dome of the U.S. Capitol is visible as a people participate in a live Nativity scene on Dec. 7, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Clarence Page: What if Mary and Joseph came to today’s Washington?

By Clarence Page

December 27, 2022 at 5:44 p.m.

On the second day of Christmas, my true love said to me, "You ought to...

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., speaks alongside House Republican leaders at the U.S Capitol Building on Dec. 14, 2022, in Washington.

Clarence Page: Republicans release their Jan. 6 report. Which riot did they see?

By Clarence Page

December 23, 2022 at 5:41 p.m.

As the mostly Democratic House committee investigating the Jan. 6. 2021, attack on the Capitol...

Jason Patera, Chicago Academy for the Arts head of school, poses with Lila Napientek at graduation festivities in 2022. (Nora Fleming)

Column: Closing out 2022 with a vow to let hope and humanity sit next to life’s sorrows

By baiduhai

December 23, 2022 at 11:00 a.m.

This will be my last column of 2022, which means I'm taking inventory of all...

Fans take photos with Elon Musk during the World Cup final match between Argentina and France on Dec. 18, 2022, in Lusail City, Qatar. Musk has made massive staff cuts at Twitter.

Clarence Page: Elon Musk finds ‘free speech’ to be more than a pastime

By Clarence Page

December 21, 2022 at 1:31 p.m.

I hate to say "I told you so" unless, of course, I turn out to...

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