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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...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the Paley Center in New York in 2019.

Rex Huppke: Zuckerberg loses billions and Bezos can’t get his super-yacht under a bridge! We must help our beloved billionaires.

By Rex W. Huppke

February 4, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

Like most Americans, I worry about the struggles our billionaires endure. Take Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder...

A boarded up window after vandalism at Kol Tuv Kosher Foods on West Devon Avenue in Chicago on Jan. 31, 2022.

Rex Huppke: Chicago synagogue vandalism, Florida Nazis, Black college bomb threats: Hate is rising. We need to start overreacting to stop it.

By Rex W. Huppke

February 3, 2022 at 10:13 a.m.

After hate crime charges were filed against a Niles man accused of spray painting swastikas...

American historian and educator Carter Godwin Woodson.

Column: Black History Month faces misguided battles over ‘discomfort’

By Clarence Page

February 1, 2022 at 5:08 p.m.

It's February, time for Black History Month to show itself off in its finest glory,...

Terry Savage: What to do with chicken money in inflationary times

By Terry Savage

April 20, 2022 at 12:06 p.m.

It's not fair that savers are losing money by trying to keep their money safe....

Column: Chicago’s new tourism campaign needs some lying: ‘Chicago — The Bible was written here!’

By Rex W. Huppke

January 31, 2022 at 3:33 p.m.

Chicago tourism officials are facing a dilemma: Not as many tourists are coming to Chicago....

Aniya Wolf, a high school student in Harrisburg, Pa., was escorted out of the prom for wearing a tuxedo instead of a dress.

‘Love and acceptance?’ Then let the girl wear a tux to prom

By Heidi Stevens

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

How much harm can a tuxedo cause? Plenty, if it's used to make a teenager...

Sandra Day O'Connor is sworn in as an associate justice by Chief Justice Warren Burger at the Supreme Court in Washington on Sept. 25, 1981.

Column: President Joe Biden’s risky court pick isn’t that risky

By Clarence Page

January 28, 2022 at 5:08 p.m.

Selective memory is alive and well in politics. You can hear it in the predictable...

A sign outside of a business asks people entering to wear a face mask and keep socially distant on Jan. 3, 2022.

Column: Readers respond to anti-maskers harassing St. Charles library: ‘I am so totally sick of these jerks’

By Rex W. Huppke

January 28, 2022 at 4:28 p.m.

I wrote this week, in a decidedly uncomplimentary manner, about anti-maskers who decided it was...

Column: As mental health struggles rise, kids’ needs have changed. And so must we.

By Heidi Stevens

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

A couple of quotes have been swirling around in my head ever since I read...

Demonstrators gather outside Flathead High School in Kalispell, Montana to protest the Kalispell School District's face mask requirement on March 9, 2021. Locally, the St. Charles Public Library is closed to visitors following an incident in which 30 to 40 unmasked people walked into the library's youth service department to protest the library board's mandatory mask policy, which is in line with the statewide mask mandate.

Column: A word to anti-maskers who shut down the St. Charles library: What is wrong with you?

By Rex W. Huppke

January 26, 2022 at 4:44 p.m.

I fondly remember what my dad used to say when I was acting like a...

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