Dr. Cory Franklin: Dr. Anthony Fauci made mistakes during the pandemic, but...
Here are 10 questionable things Dr. Anthony Fauci did during the pandemic years as America’s COVID-19 czar: He administered conflicting advice about masks to the public, first saying they were...
View ArticleSusan Koch: Summer conjures memories of my classic car-obsessed family
I’m a sucker for summertime parades. I love the classic cars featured in these annual events — such as the 1954 Chevrolet Bel Air convertible I recently spotted. It was Roman red with white sidewall...
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Editorial: Convicted felon Donald Trump could not run for the Sauk Village...
Larry Sapp fought a long legal battle to serve as a trustee in south suburban Sauk Village, and he lost — badly — in three court venues. The final blow came July 3, when the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of...
View ArticleLaura Washington: Democrats need to push Joe Biden out and roll the dice
Be bold. Joe Biden will not give up the Democratic presidential nomination without a fight, and he is fighting mightily. His delusional stubbornness could be fatal for the Democrats’ November fate. The...
View ArticleTribune Opinion quotes of the week ending July 13
President Joe Biden this week tried his best to reassure Democrats that he is up for the job he is running for. After a deadly weekend in Chicago, Mayor Brandon Johnson took a strong stance against...
View ArticleLetters: Children’s lemonade stand bridges the past and present
Rick Kogan’s column about the lemon stand of our youth (“On a July day, pause to remember the lemonade stands of our youths,” July 4) captured a profound sense of nostalgia and caused me to think about...
View ArticleLetters: Cyclists ride roughshod with little regard for anyone else
I’d like to air my view of cyclists from the perspective of both a driver and pedestrian. I do not own a bike, and I am not a cyclist. I was struck by a letter by Stephen Hoffman in the July 6 Tribune...
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Editorial: Time to sound the alarm on Illinois’ miserable economic performance
As Chicago Bears President Kevin Warren pushed for a new football stadium on the lakefront, he said that if you look around today’s Chicago, you see a paucity of cranes in the sky. That’s visual...
View ArticleJoshua Spivak: Republicans forgo a detailed party platform. Is it time for...
Republicans are once again attempting to reject the long tradition of setting out a detailed party platform. In 2020, they discarded the platform drafting entirely and wrote a note just pointing at...
View ArticleEditorial: Hollywood jumps on the bashing Biden bandwagon. Please.
No decent or empathetic American is enjoying the slow drip of the public and media campaign to persuade President Joe Biden to end his candidacy for a second term. This should apply whether you are a...
View ArticleWill Johnson: Do Chicagoans think hosting the DNC is worth it?
Next month’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago may turn out to be tumultuous after all. Will the party’s delegates renominate President Joe Biden as originally scripted, even though he is...
View ArticleClarence Page: Biden hangs on, but the questions persist about whether he...
Should Joe stay or should he go? It looked as though that painful question might be answered when I heard that President Joe Biden was set to hold the most anticipated news conference in recent...
View ArticleEditorial: A nightmare Saturday for Trump, Democrats and the Secret Service
The attempted assassination of Donald Trump at a political rally in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, Saturday implies a colossal failure on the part of the Secret Service, his sworn protector. A gunman,...
View ArticleTio Hardiman: To reduce gun violence, America must change the culture that...
Chicago and the nation are in a pressing need for answers to halt the relentless gun violence that plagues our communities. If citizens of Chicago were expecting a novel approach to reduce the...
View ArticleLetters: What chance is there to stem the tide of gun violence in Chicago?
Now that Mayor Brandon Johnson has vociferously denounced Chicago’s gun violence, all the gun-toting bad guys will obey and stop shooting each other, right? It is hoped he understands the history of...
View ArticleE.J. Fagan: Despite Donald Trump’s denials, he and Project 2025 are close
Project 2025 is the staffing and policy planning organization led by the Heritage Foundation. It published “Mandate for Leadership,” a 900-page document of policy recommendations, for the next...
View ArticleYinam Cohen: Chicago’s Jewish community is bearing the brunt of religious...
The Chicago Commission on Human Relations’ “2024 Hate Crimes and Hate Incidents Report,” co-signed by Mayor Brandon Johnson, reveals a troubling surge in antisemitic incidents. According to the report,...
View ArticleEditorial: Remember wrought iron fences? Chicago should also seek permanent...
What started the fire behind Chicago’s West Loop, now the city’s coolest restaurant, residential and work district? One catalyst was the 1990 opening of Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Studios on a plot of land...
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Letters: The attempt to assassinate Donald Trump shows that we need...
While we watched the news of the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump with shock, sadness and anger to learn of this kind of political violence again in our country, some of us were...
View ArticleDaniel DePetris: Will Israel’s attempt to kill top Hamas commander have...
Days after Hamas shocked the Israeli security establishment with a full frontal assault on Israel, killing around 1,200 people and taking about 250 people hostage, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
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