Daniel DePetris: Signalgate is distracting us from more serious issues in Yemen
It has been a rough week for national security adviser Mike Waltz, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the rest of the Trump administration’s national security team. The so-called Signalgate...
View ArticlePaul Vallas: The decline in Black teachers has nothing to do with CPS’...
The Chicago Teachers Union claims that Chicago Public Schools’ lack of Black teachers is, in part, the result of an evaluation system that discriminates against them — specifically singling out...
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Letters: Why wasn’t the president involved in the top secret chat about US...
Is anybody else bothered by the fact that, on March 24, President Donald Trump said he just found out that members of his Cabinet and national security team were discussing the Houthi attack plans on...
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Editorial: Is Lincoln Yards becoming Chicago’s new Block 37?
News that Sterling Bay, the development firm that has struggled to realize its epic plans for the 55 acres of prime North Side real estate known as Lincoln Yards, is relinquishing about half that land...
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Editorial: Chicago Teachers Union ‘won’ what was long on the table. Financial...
In the end, the leadership of the Chicago Teachers Union accepted a contract that largely mirrored what Chicago Public Schools leadership had offered for months. The spin, of course, from CTU and Mayor...
View ArticleSteve Chapman: Crackdown on abortion providers and seekers is reminiscent of...
In the decades before the Civil War, Americans were deeply divided over slavery. When enslaved people fled north to escape from bondage, Southern owners demanded help in recapturing their property....
View ArticleEditorial: Chicago has a domestic violence crisis hiding in plain sight
Chicagoans got a taste of the macabre when a story broke last November of the discovery of the dead body of a woman found next to her own severed foot at the bottom of a South Loop stairwell. But the...
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Jim Nowlan: Democrats on Illinois’ high court must recuse themselves on...
Democratic justices on the Illinois Supreme Court are so hopelessly mired in conflicts of interest on partisan issues that they must recuse themselves from all such proceedings, including the present...
View ArticleLetters: Investments in trauma-informed literacy should be a priority
I applaud the Tribune’s editorials on literacy. Success in school, employment and life is utterly dependent on the ability to read and write. Ensuring that our state’s children are literate has a...
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Laura Washington: Bernie Sanders’ handoff to AOC looks like a fait accompli
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders is a national progressive icon, moving voters to “feel the Bern” in two presidential campaigns. The self-proclaimed democratic socialist senator from Vermont has built a...
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