Lawyers: President Joe Biden’s response to arrest warrants against Hamas and...
President Joe Biden’s criticism of the International Criminal Court prosecutor’s decision to apply for arrest warrants for those responsible for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in...
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Editorial: Americans are not all economically ignorant. They just mostly care...
On Wednesday, the left-leaning British newspaper The Guardian published a Harris poll about what Americans do and don’t know about the economy. It was catnip to President Joe Biden’s White House....
View ArticleAndrea Berggren: Wilmette is changing beach access in a cruel move
In the three years since my husband, dog and I moved from Chicago’s South Loop to Wilmette, we have grown to embrace this village. From the tree-lined streets and historic architecture to the...
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Faith leaders: We can’t let summer events distract us from violence...
It is human to get distracted. Too many activities compete for our attention; too many tasks demand to get done. Facing an essential project, functioning under strict deadlines, we still lose focus and...
View ArticleLetters: Supreme Court justice should recuse himself from Trump cases
Well, that ties it! After seeing photos on the evening news of the American flag flying upside down outside the home of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito after the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on our...
View ArticleClarence Page: The credibility crisis at the Supreme Court hits a fever pitch
As if suspicions, partisan and otherwise, have not dealt enough blows to our criminal justice system in recent years, along comes Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s flag flap. Senate Judiciary...
View ArticleLaura Washington: New Barnes & Noble stores in Chicago signal that books are...
Leafy, green shoots are sprouting up from the pages. A new Barnes & Noble bookstore is opening on Wednesday near the bustling corner of Clark and Diversey in Chicago. The Lincoln Park location will...
View ArticleLetters: This Memorial Day, we honor those who gave the ultimate sacrifice
Memorial Day honors the men and women who died while serving in the United States armed forces. The day reminds us of the high price of freedom and the debt of gratitude we owe to those who made the...
View ArticleDaniel Johnson: Decisive action is needed to prevent suicides by post-9/11...
If there’s one common experience for many veterans and service members who served after 9/11, it’s watching people they served with die by suicide or go through mental distress at an almost...
View ArticleEditorial: Illinois pols stick it to automakers in warranty repair spat....
Illinois politicians just can’t keep their mitts off other people’s money. And when the money grab also pleases union bosses and a group of local business owners known for regularly making campaign...
View ArticleMarko Supronyuk: Chicago’s Mondelez has kept its ties with a warring Russia
When Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine started in 2022, it justifiably caused anger across the United States. Americans put up Ukrainian flags in a show of solidarity and members of Congress...
View ArticleLetters: State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s draft policy is a positive step forward
Recently, Chicago saw forceful rebukes of Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s draft policy limiting prosecutions for contraband obtained from certain traffic stops. What’s missing from these...
View ArticleSara Pankenier Weld: We need the humanities today more than ever
How can a man who is warm understand a man who is cold? This is a question posed by a prisoner in “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich,” written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who himself spent many...
View ArticleDaniel DePetris: China sends Taiwan’s new president a message of belligerence
Last week, Taiwan got a new president. Lai Ching-te, also known as William Lai, was sworn in after a rough and tumble campaign, succeeding his old boss, former President Tsai Ing-wen. Elections in...
View ArticleEditorial: The Biden-Trump debate next month is far more crucial than your...
Polls pretty consistently have told the same story for months now. President Joe Biden is unpopular — his latest approval ratings are in the mid-30s, perilous territory for an incumbent seeking a...
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Letters: Americans are not as dumb as Democrats seem to think
With respect to the editorial (“Americans are not all economically ignorant. They just mostly care about different measurements than elites.,” May 26) concerning what Americans do and don’t know about...
View ArticleArne Duncan: Peaceful protest and compromise strengthen democracy
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” Abraham Lincoln’s immortal phrase from an 1858 speech rings more true today than at any time in my memory. The list of what divides us is long and...
View ArticleEditorial: Israel’s short-term goal must be to bring home its hostages, not...
European support for the state of Israel further collapsed over the weekend, building on the outrage over the deaths in Gaza expressed in recent days by international courts. In a coordinated move...
View ArticleClarence Page: Four years after George Floyd’s death, what’s happened to the...
Four years have passed since global protests erupted over the chilling and, for many of us, enraging video of the murder of George Floyd, 46, as Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on his...
View ArticleEditorial: Chicago Public Schools robs Peter to pay Paul to pursue an...
Chicago Public Schools finally has released its school-by-school budgets for next year. The system conveniently waited until the chance of Springfield intervening in its fiscal affairs was over. The...
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