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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...

Patrick Swayze, as Johnny Castle, and Jennifer Grey, as Baby Houseman, in a scene from the 1987 film "Dirty Dancing" (Lionsgate Home Entertainment).

Column: With Roe v. Wade overturned, America returns to an era of criminalized abortions far worse than ‘Dirty Dancing’

By Michael Phillips

June 27, 2022 at 9:02 a.m.

With the U.S. Supreme Court's 6-3 overruling of Roe v. Wade, eliminating a woman's constitutionally...

Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., leaves a room during a break in a public hearing of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, on June 13, 2022, in Washington.

Clarence Page: Looking for GOP peace in our disunited states of resentment

By Clarence Page

June 21, 2022 at 5:05 p.m.

While some people wonder whether we're on the brink of a second Civil War, I...

J. Michael Luttig, a retired U.S. Appeals Court judge, departs on June 16, 2022, after testifying before a hearing of the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol in Washington.

Clarence Page: Congress needs to protect future elections too

By Clarence Page

June 17, 2022 at 5:25 p.m.

Sometimes in the art of political stagecraft, an entire debate can shift on a single...

The Dixie Chicks perform the National Anthem before the start of Super Bowl XXXVII between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Oakland Raiders on Jan. 26, 2003, at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, California.

Column: The Chicks don’t know it, but they’re helping me raise my children. (And doing a darn fine job.)

By Heidi Stevens

June 7, 2024 at 11:51 a.m.

It's fair to say The Chicks have helped me raise my children. On cross-country road...

So long, Dick: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon in 1974, announcing his decision to resign in the wake of the Watergate scandal.

Column: Why do the Jan. 6 hearings make me miss Nixon and Watergate?

By Michael Phillips

June 15, 2022 at 2:01 p.m.

I miss Watergate. I miss the hearings, so soothingly devoted to protocol, so revealing in...

Chesa Boudin prepares to concede at his recall party at The Ramp on June 7, 2022, in San Francisco. San Francisco residents voted to recall Boudin, a progressive, following a heated campaign that bitterly divided Democrats over crime, policing and public safety reform.

Clarence Page: ‘Law and order’ should be more than a GOP slogan

By Clarence Page

June 15, 2022 at 9:21 a.m.

As they were preparing to go to the airport to visit their new grandchildren, two...

San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin addresses supporters after being recalled from office at a primary election night event in San Francisco on June 7, 2022.

Clarence Page: Why San Francisco’s progressive prosecutor Chesa Boudin lost after Kim Foxx won

By Clarence Page

June 10, 2022 at 5:15 p.m.

My condolences to Chesa Boudin, the by-now-famous San Francisco district attorney who lost a recall...

Shawn Brundidge wipes away a tear at a memorial in Uvalde, Texas.

Heidi Stevens: ‘Fire up the RV. We’re going to Uvalde.’ Author gives kids’ books, hope to communities devastated by gun violence.

By Heidi Stevens

June 7, 2024 at 11:51 a.m.

When a white supremacist opened fire at a Tops grocery store in Buffalo, New York,...

U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C., speaks before former President Donald Trump takes the stage at a rally April 9, 2022, in Selma, North Carolina.

Clarence Page: ‘Extremism fatigue’ in politics? Get used to it.

By Clarence Page

June 7, 2022 at 6:08 p.m.

I was amused by an "unscientific opinion" survey of Republican primary voters in Arizona's heated...

According to the Tribune, "Two 'dollies' try out a two-man dolly unit on which the camera can be raised, lowered, and moved," circa April 4, 1948.

‘Dewey Defeats Truman’: Tribune’s most famous headline, and the man who was once ‘chief molder’ of Chicago

By Rick Kogan

June 8, 2022 at 4:58 p.m.

The most famous headline in this newspaper's long history appeared on the front page of...

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