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Letters: Between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, here’s who actually paid...
A number of people have expressed concerns about President Joe Biden’s performance during his Thursday presidential debate with former President Donald Trump. Unfortunately, I think at least some of...
View ArticleClarence Page: The sad reality? Biden needs to make way for another...
I never thought I would be writing a column to urge Joe Biden to step aside. But his painfully poor performance in his debate with Donald Trump last week forced me to face a very uncomfortable truth....
View ArticleLetters: The Democratic Party needs to come up with an exit plan for Joe Biden
Somewhere within the Democratic Party, beyond the partisan factions, there exists a serious brain trust whose overriding concern is the well-being of America. Or so we can only hope. Such a coterie...
View ArticleJennifer Schwab: President Joe Biden’s student debt relief is another blow to...
The unilateral decision by President Joe Biden’s administration to forgive student loan debt may help win the presidential election come November, but it’s at a steep cost to the rest of us. The...
View ArticleTina Boyer Brown: CPS funding cuts threaten my innovative arts high school
The Chicago High School for the Arts, or ChiArts, thrives in the Humboldt Park neighborhood. ChiArts’ Class of 2024 graduates face bright futures. They will study engineering, sculpture, sociology,...
View ArticleLaura Washington: Women of color in politics are perennial targets
In politics, women of color are in jeopardy. A Flossmoor man has been charged in Cook County Circuit Court with assaulting Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, allegedly by throwing a liquid in her...
View ArticleEditorial: Our state treasurer, Biden and Trump have something in common....
Illinois State Treasurer Michael Frerichs evidently just couldn’t resist. On June 20, he published a news release touting a record $130 million in earnings for the state’s investment portfolio during...
View ArticleJack Modzelewski: Why not vote for issues first, then candidates next?
At this time of year we celebrate the Declaration of Independence. It’s good to remember that the 248-year-old document was primarily about specific issues that the declaration’s signatories believed...
View ArticleDaniel DePetris: Does the alliance between Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un...
Even before Russian President Vladimir Putin landed in Pyongyang for his first trip to North Korea in nearly a quarter century, foreign policy observers were pontificating about what Putin and North...
View ArticleJohn Digles: Chicago should look to the Illinois Film Production Tax Credit...
As a Chicago City Council subcommittee explores new taxes and fees, including another property tax hike, a proven path to create revenue and even grow the tax base without more tax burden on business...
View ArticleEditorial: Walgreens could join other major retailers fleeing high-crime...
Walgreens is in trouble. And that means trouble for Chicago. The Deerfield-based pharmacy giant, having lost about three-quarters of its market value since the beginning of 2022, is embarking on a...
View ArticleLetters: Editorial asking Joe Biden to drop out of the race is doing us no...
Regarding the editorial “As America sank into the couch, Biden and Trump combined for a depressing farce. Enough.” (June 30): How dare you. When former President Donald Trump was convicted of 34...
View ArticleEditorial: Thanks for that all-American $5 deal, McDonald’s
We make no health claims for the new $5 deal at McDonald’s: A McDouble cheeseburger or a McChicken sandwich, four chicken nuggets, french fries and a small soda. We’d say that if you are having a...
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Steve Chapman: Supreme Court ignores history to give Donald Trump free rein
For a Supreme Court that places great importance on history and tradition, its decision granting Donald Trump broad immunity is conspicuously indifferent to either factor. Presidents have never enjoyed...
View ArticleLetters: If Joe Biden steps down, so should Donald Trump
I, like millions of other Americans and people from around the world, watched the cringe-worthy presidential debate. Neither candidate inspires confidence in the United States as a world leader. What I...
View ArticleScott Weiner: With elimination of the tip credit, Chicago restaurants face an...
This week marks the first phase of the elimination of the tip credit. With the holiday, the timing is ironic. At a moment when we celebrate the nation’s independence, the restaurant industry in...
View ArticleRick Jasculca: Let’s get honest, but let’s be real about President Joe Biden
Let’s be honest. Thursday night was not the best for President Joe Biden. That’s simply a fact. But another fact is that, in that very same debate, Donald Trump outright lied or spun false narratives...
View ArticleEditorial: CTU helps write the mayor’s important letters for him. Who’s...
Everyone in Chicago knows how much Mayor Brandon Johnson owes the Chicago Teachers Union for his electoral victory last year. So perhaps it shouldn’t be a surprise to find evidence that he makes sure...
View ArticleClarence Page: Five decades after Watergate, the Supreme Court has given us...
As one of three Democratic appointees on the nine-member Supreme Court, Justice Sonia Sotomayor often provides a lonely, although eloquent voice of dissent. But her dissent was about as subtle as a...
View ArticleEditorial: Biden in or Biden out, Democrats need to reckon with the Kamala...
Whether President Joe Biden stays or goes as the 2024 presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, and trend lines as we write suggest a painful march toward the latter, the party has yet to make en...
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