Editorial: Gov. J.B. Pritzker won’t bail out Brandon Johnson, the Chicago...
Gov. J.B. Pritzker won’t confirm or deny his place in the vice presidential vetting stakes. But there’s no mistaking the blunt message he recently delivered to Mayor Brandon Johnson and the Chicago...
View ArticleLetters: Democrats have convinced themselves that Kamala Harris is their savior
When Kamala Harris made her run for the presidential nomination, she went nowhere. Her support was dismal, and she dropped out early. During her years as vice president, she has been seen by many...
View ArticleEd Bachrach: 10 reasons to see ‘Medium Cool,’ featuring real scenes of...
If you want to see a great Chicago film, in my opinion the greatest, see “Medium Cool.” The 1969 film will be screened at the Music Box Theatre on Monday evening. There are at least 10 reasons why...
View ArticleEditorial: A whiff of betrayal undoes Mike Madigan and Mike McClain’s famous...
What kind of friend is Michael Madigan? He’s never been our pal, so we can’t say firsthand. But one of his closest friends over the course of about a half century has been Mike McClain, who served...
View ArticleOpinion series: The history and politics of the Olympic Games
The Paris Olympics are underway. Northwestern University international politics professor Ian Hurd and student Sadie Barlow explore the history and geopolitics of the Games in this three-part series....
View ArticleTribune Opinion quotes of the week ending July 27
The week started off with yet another unprecedented event. President Joe Biden announced he was dropping out of the race on Sunday and quickly endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris. The Israeli prime...
View ArticleLetters: America is not a safe place for its Jewish citizens
I am a proud second-generation American Jew. My grandparents immigrated here in the early 1900s to escape the pogroms of Europe. America offered my family and many others like them a safe haven from...
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Irvin Muchnick: Competitive swimming has a dark side of abuse and poor oversight
Editor’s note: This piece was adapted from Irvin Muchnick’s forthcoming book “Underwater: The Greed-Soaked Tale of Sexual Abuse in USA Swimming and Around the Globe,” which will be published by ECW...
View ArticleLetters: A love of Michael Jordan created a ripple effect of kindness
Editor’s note: We asked readers to submit letters about memorable acts of kindness they’ve witnessed or facilitated, in response to Jean Kwas’ suggestion in her July 13 letter. Here is a selection of...
View ArticleEditorial: Democratic media machine roars for ‘brat’ Kamala Harris. We await...
No one who has witnessed the last few days can doubt the power of the Democratic culture-media machine, a formidable force honed by holding power for 12 of the last 16 years and made up of headline...
View ArticleSamir Mayekar and Nadya Mason: The quantum revolution is coming to Illinois
The word “quantum” is moving beyond physics labs and Marvel movies. Today, the term represents our ability to develop powerful tools that will revolutionize industries from health care to finance and...
View ArticleStorer H. Rowley: Joe Biden’s vision of democracy? ‘Enough of us came...
In his inaugural address, President Joe Biden declared memorably that hope, unity and the American ideal of a more equal and perfect union had kept the nation’s fragile democracy ascendant over the...
View ArticleLetters: Even the city’s Finance Department has a heart
Editor’s note: We asked readers to submit letters about memorable acts of kindness they’ve witnessed or facilitated, in response to Jean Kwas’ suggestion in her July 13 letter. Here is a selection of...
View ArticleLaura Washington: Black and young folks are stoked about Kamala Harris’...
It’s all upside. That’s what a Kamala Harris presidential candidacy offers to the Democrats. Harris has a long way to go, but her trajectory is up. President Joe Biden finally did the right thing, by...
View ArticleJoseph Vukov: Worried about AI? Here are things you need to know.
The first time I used generative artificial intelligence, I felt like a kid at an amateur magic show. Is the card really floating in midair? The parents at this kind of show, of course, are less...
View ArticleSheldon H. Jacobson: Who will pay for the Crowdstrike outage?
Crowdstrike did not have a good day on July 19. During a routine software update, the file that the cybersecurity firm issued triggered a logic error that prohibited Windows machines from rebooting....
View ArticleEditorial: As Olympic Games begin, U.S. has work to do in better protecting...
Paris is welcoming the Olympic Games much as Chicago is getting ready for next month’s Democratic National Convention, imposing strict security, boosting hotel rates and cleaning up the Seine River,...
View ArticleEditorial: Another crisis for Israel and potentially a big test for Joe Biden
Israeli officials long have known they have a big problem on their northern border with Lebanon, a bigger problem, from their perspective, than the situation in Gaza, which many moderates see as likely...
View ArticleEditorial: Southwest Airlines becomes like every other airline
Southwest Airlines’ decision to do away with unreserved seating attracted lots of media coverage. Much of it referred to the carrier, which has a long and proud history at Chicago’s Midway Airport, as...
View ArticleLetters: How planners can improve large-scale developments in Chicago
Large-scale private developments are blooming in Chicago. We have heard of proposals for a White Sox stadium in the South Loop and a new Bears stadium at the lakefront. Now, the new large-scale 1901...
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