Antoinette Burton: The relentless quest for innovation is harming US...
As the next academic year approaches at colleges and universities across the country, U.S. higher education faces a number of cliffs. Recently, three institutions — Wittenberg College, the University...
View ArticleLetters: Obstruction of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s leadership choices is...
Regarding the editorial “Council opponents of Brandon Johnson policies are the ‘new Vrdolyak 29? Please” (Aug. 8): The Tribune Editorial Board and other individuals upset about the comparison to the...
View ArticleEditorial: Kamala Harris, Israel and wanting things both ways, politically...
Precisely what a President Kamala Harris would do about the state of Israel remains largely unknown; the Democratic nominee for president of the United States has been so busy avoiding answering...
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Edward Keegan: Might 400 Lake Shore Drive be our next orphaned twin tower?
Editor’s note: This new Sunday architecture column is generously supported by a grant from former Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin that is administered by Journalism Funding Partners, a...
View ArticleClarence Page: Why ‘stolen valor’ political fights are so intense — and...
While the saying may be true that candidates for vice president usually don’t make much of a difference in the ultimate success of presidential candidates, they do give us plenty to argue about. That’s...
View ArticleScott Gillespie: Tim Walz’s greatest skill is adaptability
About a decade ago, then-U.S. Rep. Tim Walz showed up for an interview at a Minnesota newspaper touting the benefits of physical fitness. He’d lost more than 80 pounds while in Congress, transforming...
View ArticleLetters: Editorial board gives PAC too much credit for Rep. Cori Bush’s defeat
An editorial on Thursday (“Unfortunate rhetoric from Bush as she lost her primary”) gives the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s super political action committee far more credit than it...
View ArticleAndy Brehm: Tim Walz has been a disaster for the once-thriving Minnesota
Minnesotans are proud of their state, and there’s a lot of understandable excitement here surrounding Vice President Kamala Harris’ selection of our governor, Tim Walz, as her running mate. During his...
View ArticleLaura Washington: The African Festival of the Arts, a path to my heritage,...
My window to Africa has broken. Chicago’s 35-year-old African Festival of the Arts has been postponed. The four-day annual festival, hosted in Washington Park on the city’s South Side, was scheduled...
View ArticleEditorial: Main Street has weathered the ‘retail apocalypse’ adroitly. But...
Not long ago, the future of brick-and-mortar stores looked dicey. The rise of e-commerce, combined with COVID-19, threatened to gut Main Street business districts. Merchants were urged to prepare for a...
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Letters: Let’s end the ‘stolen valor’ brouhaha over Tim Walz and JD Vance
While I’m a regular reader of Clarence Page’s column, I seldom agree with his point of view; however, I do agree with his Sunday commentary on “stolen valor” with respect to vice presidential...
View ArticleDaniel DePetris: Ukraine’s daring offensive is humiliating Russia. But to...
For most of the year, the Ukrainian army has been in a defensive crouch across the more than 600-mile-long front line. It has been dealing with a Russian opponent whose use of glide bombs, artillery...
View ArticleEditorial: The crisis at Western Illinois University and beyond
Whether it’s Macomb, Carbondale or DeKalb, Illinois’ “directional” public universities such as Western Illinois, Southern Illinois, and Northern Illinois have an outsize impact on the communities they...
View ArticleMike Viola: Chicago needs to reset on homelessness
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that local governments can enforce bans on sleeping in public, bringing nationwide attention to the homelessness issue. The court’s ruling doesn’t oblige Chicago...
View ArticleAlicia Pederson: The courtyard block solution to Chicago’s family flight problem
How do we stop the alarming flight of young Chicago families to the suburbs? By building European-style courtyard blocks — starting with the U.S. Postal Service site in the 2500 block of West Lawrence...
View ArticleEditorial: Kamala Harris signs onto a signature Trump issue, taking pandering...
Pandering to voters is a time-honored tradition in American politics, but Vice President Kamala Harris took it to new levels with her surprising promise over the weekend to seek to end federal income...
View ArticleLetters: How recent mayors made Chicago a great city
I wish to add my perspective to Forrest Claypool’s op-ed on Chicago’s renaissance under Mayor Richard M. Daley (“Chicago’s renaissance under Richard M. Daley is at risk,” Aug. 6). My wife and I moved...
View ArticleGretchen Carlson, et al.: Companies that silence worker voices are actually...
These days, corporate America worries about the implications of external and publicized whistleblowing — especially in light of revelations about our transportation and information ecosystems from...
View ArticleClarence Page: Biden’s campaign exit has Trump flailing, sort of like a...
Is Donald Trump losing it? I’m not referring to the former president’s current presidential race. I’m talking about the former president’s mind. Or maybe, better stated, his bearings. Things seemed to...
View ArticleEditorial: Northern suburbs are awash in coffeehouses, so why is Glenview...
Government has a role to play in economic development. But sometimes things can go off the rails when politicians decide winners and losers. Case in point: The Village of Glenview’s decision last week...
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