Editorial: Trump’s salvo against Deere was misplaced. But corporate...
There’s never a good time to lay off U.S. factory workers while adding jobs in Mexico or other foreign countries. But Moline-based Deere, the top farm equipment maker in the U.S., is discovering that...
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Editorial: Derrick Rose, a Chicago legend forever, calls it a career
Frrrommmm Chicago! News last week of Derrick Rose’s retirement from the National Basketball Association brought many Chicagoans back to those exciting years beginning in 2008 when the Bulls improbably...
View ArticleJoshua Spivak: Will voter turnout in November repeat the historic numbers of...
As we race to Election Day, one polling question will gain enormous importance in our understanding of the race — who are the actual voters? Using likely-voter screens, pollsters are now trying to...
View ArticleJohn T. Shaw: Indiana US Sen. Richard Lugar offered a master class in...
In early September, several hundred people gathered at Bicentennial Unity Plaza in Indianapolis for the unveiling of a larger-than-life statue of Richard Lugar and to honor the much admired Hoosier....
View ArticleStacy Davis Gates: Chicago’s public schools have never been fully funded
Teachers in Chicago and nationwide are “walking in” Monday because Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds, a lifeline of educational funding created during the pandemic, are expiring....
View ArticleLetters: Hating immigrants is an American tradition
Someone once said that the new immigrants to the United States were “beaten men from beaten races, representing the worst failures in the struggle for existence.” Who said that? Was it Donald Trump, or...
View ArticleEditorial: Old-school scams pale compared with today’s ultra-personal...
First announced in 2020, the case against Long Leaf Trading Group could hardly be simpler: A boiler-room operation based in Chicago cold-called unsuspecting marks to push a commodity-trading scheme....
View ArticleEditorial: Donald Trump advocated for police brutality. No good cop would agree.
It’s hardly news when Donald Trump says something objectionable, outrageous and disqualifying for occupying the highest office in the land. But his statement over the weekend at a rally in Erie,...
View ArticleEditorial: Here is why CBS was right to insist vice presidential candidates...
Two things can be true at once: All politicians lie and Donald Trump lies far more than most. That’s why we think CBS was right when it announced Friday that it was leaving it up to the vice...
View ArticleLetters: We White Sox fans deserve better from Jerry Reinsdorf
Here are just a few stats from the Chicago White Sox’s record-breaking season. They were ranked last in the majors in scoring (3.1 runs per game), batting average (.221), on-base percentage (.278) and...
View ArticleDavid McGrath: Hurricane Helene was brutal. Thankfully, the NOAA gave us...
Mother Nature via Florida’s hurricane season is like one of the carpetbagging roofers and con artists who routinely travel here to exploit our suffering and vulnerability. Except that she works her...
View ArticleDaniel DePetris: Will Iran retaliate for the death of Hezbollah leader Hassan...
Hezbollah has long been regarded as the Middle East’s most formidable nonstate actor, one that took on legendary status after driving Israel from southern Lebanon in 2000 and fighting to a draw against...
View ArticleMichael Peregrine: The speech Jimmy Carter would likely give if he were...
Perhaps Jimmy Carter, who turns 100 years old Tuesday, was ahead of his time as president in terms of his unique perspective on the American experience. Specifically, 45 years ahead of his time. What...
View ArticleEditorial: In the Middle East, a terrifying scenario becomes all too clear
So now what we long have feared has broken out into the open: war raging between Israel and Iran. No more talk of proxy war, of how the strings of the terrorist groups known as Hamas and Hezbollah were...
View ArticleLaura Washington: Here’s what Kamala Harris must do to appeal to a fractured...
As the Nov. 5 election swiftly approaches, the nation’s razor-thin presidential race hangs on one truth. It’s all about the base. That mantra applies to Vice President Kamala Harris and former...
View ArticleLetters: Decision-makers should do what’s best for CPS students
If the front-page picture from the Sept. 26 Tribune by Antonio Perez, of Mayor Brandon Johnson and Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez, could speak, I think it would tell us what the mayor truly...
View ArticleJerome M. Adams: The high stakes of skipping your yearly COVID-19 shot
Every parent wants to keep their family safe. We want our children to be healthy and enjoy the activities and milestones of adolescence. We yearn to grow old alongside our partners and to celebrate...
View ArticleMarj Halperin: Did Ed Burke try to shake me down? Sure felt like it.
Former Ald. Ed Burke’s perp walk as he headed for prison was slow, but his fall from the highest levels of power was swift. It played out as familiar for any of us who have been watching the steady...
View ArticleLetters: Here are 2 grievous problems with the Electoral College
The op-ed “How the Electoral College concentrates candidate attention and why it matters” (Sept. 22) demonstrates how the Electoral College accentuates the importance of battleground states. But it...
View ArticleWillie Wilson: Lack of teacher accountability in CPS is fueling the...
The school-to-prison pipeline is sustained by social promotion and a lack of teacher accountability. Passing students from one grade to the next regardless of academic performance seriously damages...
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