Richard Babcock: Trump’s critics could learn from Joe Welch, who confronted...
“Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?” That vivid imprecation, one of the most telling in American history, was uttered by a crusty Boston lawyer named...
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Elizabeth Shackelford: Russia’s shadow war against the West is more dangerous...
In June, an arson attack on a Prague bus was foiled, and a man in a hotel near Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport accidentally blew himself up with a homemade bomb. Antisemitic graffiti was spread across...
View ArticleLetters: Do the Bears have no shame in begging for public money for a new...
It’s readily apparent that there is no capacity for shame in the Chicago Bears organization. In a city facing a $1 billion budget shortfall for fiscal year 2025, in addition to the more than $600...
View ArticleThe Tribune’s Quotes of the Week quiz for Oct. 19
This week kicked off with cheers, music and cowbells, as runners took to city streets for the 46th Chicago Marathon. At the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse, jury selection continued in former Illinois House...
View ArticleLetters: The US has the power to end the war in Ukraine
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine has just released his victory plan for his country. If we care about the continued existence of humanity, we may want to take note. Every day that this war is...
View ArticleClarence Page: Donald Trump’s ‘day of love’ was far from lovely
I was delighted but, alas, not all that excited by the platform of policies that Vice President Kamala Harris unveiled to court Black male voters last week. Her “Opportunity Agenda for Black Men”...
View ArticleJamie Kalven: Ten years after Laquan McDonald’s murder, the old status quo...
Sunday is the 10th anniversary of the murder of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke. Because the killing and its aftermath altered the course of Chicago history, it is...
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David Mamet: This is why Chicago was once the marvel of our nation
My small South Side neighborhood gave us civil rights leader Malcolm X; Sherry Lansing, who ran Paramount as the first woman to head a major film studio; reporter Seymour Hersh of The New York Times;...
View ArticleEditorial: Eileen O’Neill Burke for Cook County state’s attorney
When we spoke to the Democratic nominee for Cook County state’s attorney earlier this month, we were struck by the change in Eileen O’Neill Burke. Now that Burke, 59, does not have to fight off a...
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Letters: Kamala Harris has to dance backward to impress while Donald Trump...
What does Kamala Harris have in common with Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire’s dance partner ? She has to dance backward in high heels. Consider the current presidential campaign. In Donald Trump’s public...
View ArticleKarthee Madasamy: Chicago has positioned itself to become a superstar hub for...
As a Silicon Valley-based venture capitalist immersed in deep tech and an investor in quantum pioneers such as PsiQuantum, I’ve had a front-row seat to the quantum computing revolution. While Silicon...
View ArticleAdam Patric Miller: Why I as a teacher won’t use artificial intelligence
A colleague said he called a meeting with his daughter’s Advanced Placement English teacher because the teacher responds to student writing using artificial intelligence. He has a problem with that....
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Editorial: Our endorsements for the Illinois Senate: Lightford, Martwick,...
Today, the Tribune Editorial Board turns its attention to Springfield with our endorsements for the Illinois Senate, which will be followed later by our endorsements for the Illinois House. As the...
View ArticleLetters: Editorial board blames the disenfranchised for the war in Gaza
The editorial “Death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar offers a golden opportunity to halt Middle East suffering” (Oct. 18) promotes false optimism, instantly dispelled by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
View ArticleVincent Trometter: Politics are threatening Nippon-US Steel deal. Do we want...
Political courage has never been harder to find in Washington. A prime example of this is opposition from President Joe Biden’s administration and presidential nominees Donald Trump and Kamala Harris...
View ArticleDaniel DePetris: Does Yahya Sinwar’s death actually change anything?
Last week’s death of Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar, the world’s most wanted terrorist, has unleashed a torrent of new questions about the state of the war in Gaza, Israel’s goals and the Biden...
View ArticleMailee Smith: CTU took over Acero charter schools to stifle choice....
The Chicago Teachers Union is the death knell for the success and growth of any school. That’s the case in Chicago Public Schools, where the CTU’s Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators (CORE) leadership...
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Editorial: Our endorsements for the Illinois Senate Part Two
Today the Tribune Editorial Board publishes the second and final part of our statewide endorsements for the Illinois Senate. Read Part One here. District 31 This Lake County district includes all or...
View ArticleLaura Washington: McDonald’s-loving Donald Trump is going to ‘Make America...
Former President Donald Trump is teaming up with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the 2024 presidential campaign — to get the fat out. In August, Kennedy dropped his quixotic presidential run to endorse and...
View ArticleLetters: Chicago is the engine that drives the suburbs and state
I could not let state Sen. Seth Lewis’ opinion piece in the Tribune go unanswered (“Suburban and downstate taxpayers are not Johnson’s piggy bank,” Oct. 16). This controversy has been going on forever,...
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