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Caitlin Fitz: Where are the women in Northwestern athletics leadership?
Northwestern University’s Wildcat women have outperformed on the playing field in the last few years, bringing home national championships in field hockey and lacrosse as well as conference...
View ArticleJim Nowlan: Illinois should be an economic powerhouse. Why isn’t it?
In each of the six R’s critical to economic development — roads, rails, rivers, runways, routers (technology) and research — Illinois is among the top states in the nation. And it’s smack dab in the...
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Editorial: President Joe Biden finally bows to the inevitable and leaves race
Joe Biden began his national political career in 1972, improbably ousting a Republican senator in Delaware at the age of 29. Biden was so young that he was elected before he was old enough, per the...
View ArticleLaura Washington: The Donald Trump lovefest at the RNC was full of...
Politics as usual is politics a la former President Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention. Last week’s GOP lovefest was laced with contradictions and calumny. The joyous celebratory...
View ArticleEditorial: Milwaukee’s convention experience holds some lessons for Chicago...
Azmi Alaeddin said he felt a letdown as he entered the Milwaukee Public Market last week, sweaty and hot, a full-size Palestinian flag in hand. He had just returned from a protest march on Day 1 of the...
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Daniel DePetris: How does Joe Biden’s foreign policy record stack up?
President Joe Biden’s decision to pull out of the race on Sunday afternoon shocked the country. A day earlier, the president was talking as if his campaign was full steam ahead. His change of heart...
View ArticleLetters: Joe Biden the statesman has served this country well
There will never be another statesman like Joe Biden in our lifetimes. His accomplishments and brilliance as president are stellar. He faced world challenges that have been unimaginable. His skill,...
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Editorial: United Center development is good news for the West Side. But...
In the smoothest of media rollouts, the two famous families who own the United Center laid out plans, unveiled to the Editorial Board Monday, for a $7 billion private development that will transform...
View ArticleJames Coltella: What America might learn from elections in Europe
As America ponders its political future, the dynamics of politics in Europe offer U.S. lawmakers interesting food for thought — the change there isn’t necessarily about a movement to political...
View ArticleIan Hurd and Sadie Barlow: The Swiss tax code and global machinery bring you...
Editor’s note: This is Part 1 in a three-part series from Northwestern University professor Ian Hurd and student Sadie Barlow that explores the history and geopolitics of the Olympics. Look for Part 2...
View ArticleNik Hunder: Despite scrutiny, the CTA’s president rode the system only 58...
“I dare say we know our system better than most people who criticize us,” said CTA President Dorval Carter Jr., who rode the system only 58 times last year. Since data showing his 2022 riding habits...
View ArticleLetters: Shame on the Democrats for pushing Joe Biden out
I don’t think the Tribune Editorial Board can accurately say that the vast majority of Democrats pushed for President Joe Biden to step down from the presidential race (“Biden finally bows to the...
View ArticleJohn Mark Hansen: The Democratic Party’s backward induction problem in the...
In game theory, games among strategic players that continue over time can often be solved by “backward induction”: Look at the outcome at the last stage of the game to figure out whether the players...
View ArticleWillie Wilson: Gun violence is destroying the soul of Chicago and America
Last month, Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy declared gun violence a public health crisis. Surprisingly, this is the first advisory on gun violence ever issued by the surgeon general’s office. The...
View ArticleLetters: Secret Service director showed guts before Congress
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has resigned in the aftermath of what many describe as a massive security breach at the Donald Trump rally shooting. Leadership starts at the top, and she...
View ArticleEditorial: Biden is out, but Democrats still ought to let delegates vote on...
Chicago has been the site of numerous memorable political conventions over the past 160-plus years, starting with the most famous and consequential of all — Abraham Lincoln’s improbable nomination as...
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Ian Hurd and Sadie Barlow: At the Olympics, must it be men versus women?
Editor’s note: This is Part 2 in a three-part series from Northwestern University professor Ian Hurd and student Sadie Barlow that explores the history and geopolitics of the Olympics. Read Part 1...
View ArticleHeidi Stevens: ‘Childless cat lady’ attacks on Kamala Harris betray a deep...
When President Joe Biden endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee for president, her critics quickly leaned into the childless cat lady narrative. “Really simple, underdiscussed...
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Elizabeth Shackelford: Outside nations try to bring peace to Sudan but also...
The United States just launched a new effort to end Sudan’s civil war, inviting the two warring sides to Switzerland to engage in talks aimed at a cease-fire. Switzerland and Saudi Arabia are...
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Ian Hurd and Sadie Barlow: As in 1936, war is not enough to exclude a nation...
Editor’s note: This is Part 3 in a three-part series from Northwestern University professor Ian Hurd and student Sadie Barlow that explores the history and geopolitics of the Olympics. Read the full...
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