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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...

A scene from the television movie "The Day After" in 1983.

John Keilman: President Biden says don’t worry about nuclear war. Maybe we should.

By John Keilman

March 11, 2022 at 8:14 a.m.

I was in middle school the last time I contemplated dying in a nuclear fireball....

African students who used to study in Ukraine are seen in temporary accomodation in a sports hall in Przemysl, in eastern Poland on Feb. 28, 2022.

Clarence Page: Ukraine’s crisis is no excuse for racism or xenophobia

By Clarence Page

March 8, 2022 at 5:27 p.m.

How should we Americans feel about reports from Ukraine that, amid the chaos of Russia's...

President Joe Biden arrives to deliver the State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 1, 2022, in Washington.

Clarence Page: President Joe Biden needed to defend himself against the ‘defund the police’ smear

By Clarence Page

March 4, 2022 at 5:58 p.m.

When President Joe Biden called for "funding the police" in his State of the Union...

Column: The pandemic forced many to delay communal grieving. Why planning memorials now can help us heal.

By Heidi Stevens

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

COVID-19 arrived quickly and devastatingly for Kelly Scannell. It was March 2020. She and her...

President Joe Biden nominated federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, seen Feb., 18, 2022, to the U.S. Supreme Court, making her the first Black woman selected to serve on the court.

Clarence Page: First Black woman Supreme Court nominee faces same old ‘ridiculousness’

By Clarence Page

March 1, 2022 at 6:29 p.m.

You can tell a lot about the strength of President Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominee...

A woman outside St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church on Feb. 25, 2022, in New York.

Clarence Page: We stand for democracy in Ukraine, but don’t seem so certain about the price

By Clarence Page

February 25, 2022 at 5:56 p.m.

It brings cold comfort to Mitt Romney, I'm sure, to be reminded that he was...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wrote a letter Tuesday to the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services calling on authorities to classify and investigate gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth as child abuse.

Column: Texas attempt to criminalize medical care for transgender youth is cynical exploitation of this moment in time

By Heidi Stevens

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

We're living in a bullying moment, and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott just doubled down. The...

Chief Keef's hologram concert was stopped midway through the first song at Wolf Lake Memorial Park in Hammond July 25, 2015. The concert was originally planned for Chicago.

Clarence Page: This is not a ‘drill.’ NY mayor tackles Chicago-born ‘drill’ rap culture.

By Clarence Page

February 22, 2022 at 4:42 p.m.

Chicago, historically known for its jazz, blues and electronic "house" dance music, more recently has...

Satirist P.J. O'Rourke talks to a Miami University journalism class on Nov. 19, 1993, in Oxford, Ohio.

Clarence Page: After P.J. O’Rourke, who can save conservative comedy now?

By Clarence Page

February 18, 2022 at 4:49 p.m.

It was poignantly appropriate that the news of P.J. O'Rourke's death was broken by a...

Joe Rogan looks on during a UFC Fight Night event in 2015. The podcaster came to fame as a "cage-fighting commentator."

Clarence Page: We can learn to live with COVID-19, and with Joe Rogan too

By Clarence Page

February 15, 2022 at 4:55 p.m.

Since the threat of being "canceled," shamed or otherwise erased from public discourse seems to...

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