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Letters: Mayor Brandon Johnson continues to make fiscally irresponsible...
Despicable. This is the only appropriate descriptor for the obvious political ploy that Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and his hand-picked Board of Education pulled off in the eleventh hour to fire...
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2024 in review: Our most heartfelt op-eds
We at Tribune Opinion are focused on offering our readers intelligent voices on a plethora of issues to encourage critical thinking and constructive debate. But we also like to provide plenty of room...
View ArticleLetters: Let’s be the kind of people who ease the suffering of others
As we gathered at the bedside of my gentle, dying mother-in-law, Ellie, her niece spoke softly in her ear recalling when she accidentally broke Ellie’s favorite statue of Mary, the mother of Jesus....
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2024 in review: The election as told through Tribune editorials
2024 was a highly consequential election year, and the Tribune Editorial Board turned many times to the presidential campaign. There was the disastrous-for-Democrats debate between Donald Trump and Joe...
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Edward Keegan: What kind of year has it been for Chicago architecture?
In Chicago architecture, there’s always something new, always something to look forward to. But looking back, 2024 was a middling year — no great new buildings came online, no local luminary received...
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2024 in review: A look back at the election through Tribune op-eds
Donald Trump is going to be our nation’s next president, but how he got there and how the Democrats lost are a journey worth revisiting. After a bad debate performance and immense pressure from his...
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Editorial: For Jimmy Carter, the presidency was prologue
He left office in a stunning landslide defeat after a single term as the nation’s 39th president. But Jimmy Carter wasn’t done yet. Instead of withdrawing quietly from public life as most former...
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Dr. Donald R. Hopkins: Jimmy Carter worked tirelessly to eradicate a deadly...
Jimmy Carter was a president, a peacemaker, a public health champion — and my friend. When he left the White House, Carter used the power of his name, character and influence to work on challenges...
View ArticleRandall Balmer: Jimmy Carter’s election was a high point in resurgence of...
In November 1973, a group of evangelicals met at the YMCA on Wabash Avenue and adopted the Chicago Declaration of Evangelical Social Concern. Echoing the themes of progressive evangelicalism from...
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2024 in review: A look back at the student protests in op-eds
Last spring, tension over the war in the Middle East reached a boiling point, and students at many universities across America set up tent encampments and protested what they perceived as their...
View ArticleClarence Page: Behind the ‘Lie of the Year’ about Haitian immigrants are some...
As it has been doing yearly since 2009, the fact-checking organization PolitiFact has chosen the “Lie of the Year.” There was an abundance of nominees in 2024. And, it turns out, the group chose the...
View ArticleDaniel DePetris: Here are New Year’s resolutions for US foreign policy
The end of the year is always bittersweet. On the one hand, it’s a time of joy and happiness, when loved ones come into town for the holidays. Yet on the other hand, there’s always the thought of how...
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2024 in review: Life around America and the world as told through Tribune...
The Middle East continued to dominate international news in 2024, but, over the course of the year, the Tribune Editorial Board also turned its attention to pop stars and McFlurry machines. And it...
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Letters: The real threat to health care is not doctors
“I know you’re supposed to push me on these. I know they’re a money-maker for you, but I just won’t do that pneumonia shot.” She had been my patient for years and was in her 70s with severe lung...
View ArticleJohn T. Shaw: University president shows that statesmanship can work wonders...
Editor’s note: John T. Shaw’s December column is appearing on Wednesday due to holiday scheduling. The column’s regular publication schedule will resume at the end of this month. This is a perilous...
View ArticleLetters: There are barriers to upscaling healthy food production
The Dec. 22 article “A rift in Trump world over obesity” rehashes the continual cry for healthier eating. The usual culprits are blamed: “Food companies have saturated the United States and other...
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Steve Chapman: For 2025, we should resist despair — but also false hope
One of the forgotten moments of Barack Obama’s presidency came early, on Feb. 12, 2009. It was the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, the greatest of all American leaders, and the...
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2024 in review: The year in Scott Stantis cartoons
From ShotSpotter controversies to the presidential election and Chicago corruption to the innumerable crises at City Hall, Tribune cartoonist Scott Stantis had no shortage of material to visualize in...
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Editorial: Here are our views on new Illinois laws on everything from your...
For those who mutter, “There ought to be a law,” when they see or experience something of which they disapprove, the Illinois General Assembly had their back in 2024. As always, there were dozens of...
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Editorial: An unsettling start to 2025 and renewed worries for Chicago’s many...
The practice of ramming a vehicle into a large group of people — with intent to maim and kill — is not an exclusively American phenomenon. On Dec. 20, just before Christmas, a Saudi-born German doctor...
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