Katie Hill and Jens Ludwig: Curbing gun violence in Chicago doesn’t require that we first end poverty
Ending poverty is neither necessary nor sufficient for solving the problem of gun violence in...
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Jamie Kalven: The president is using a civil rights-era tactic to suppress free speech
The federal government is using the threat of disorder in Chicago as a rationale for...
Clarence Page: Attorney General Pam Bondi faces critics, ‘burns’ them
In her first oversight hearing as attorney general, Pam Bondi made it clear that she...
Sen. Lakesia Collins: America is on fire. Let’s stop arguing over the smoke.
America is in a moment in which the temperature of our national discourse has reached...
Civic leaders: State lawmakers should reject massive pension benefit sweetener
A union-backed pension proposal would saddle Illinois taxpayers with $80 billion-plus in additional pension contributions.
Dr. Cory Franklin and Victoria Tiller: Physician-assisted suicide is a matter of more than individual autonomy
Medical aid in dying requires societal acceptance of suicide as well as the collaboration of...
Liam Stanton: Chicago should give pensioners the option for a buyout
A voluntary lump-sum pension buyout program would give retirees flexibility and certainty and immediately reduce...
Willie Wilson: Is Jim Crow making a comeback?
I thought Jim Crow was dead, but it seems to be making a comeback through...
Joshua Braver: How judicial deference could let Donald Trump turn the National Guard against Chicago
The courts in California and Portland chose a deferential approach and left themselves vulnerable to...
David Fish: Getting fired for social media posts is the new workplace cancel culture
Employees' online lives are not separate from their professional ones.