Mohammad Hosseini: Why does the success of Chinese AI invention DeepSeek...
The artificial intelligence boom led by American tech bros needed one instance of serious competition from China, namely DeepSeek, to shiver in fear and lose $94 billion of wealth in a single day....
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Editorial: The joy of reading and the Illinois crisis stealing it away
Literacy is a gift we give our children. It’s reading a poem by, say, Joseph Bruchac and understanding not just the words, but the emotions behind them: “The old man must have stopped our car two dozen...
View ArticleMarj Halperin: A mass exodus from civil service would be disastrous for our...
Civil service is another term for “professional workforce” and we want this in government, right? And yet, as I write this, our government is being taken over by the opposite kind of worker. The...
View ArticleLetters: President Donald Trump’s tariffs will hurt working families
As president and CEO of the Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, I want to address an issue that impacts us all — new taxes on products from Mexico, Canada and China. These tariffs will increase the...
View ArticleEditorial: Arrests in two shocking Chicago murder cases give us hope there’s...
In the past few days, police have arrested suspects in two of Chicago’s most horrific murder cases last year. Arrested Friday was Deron Wolfe, 19, who was charged with first-degree murder and armed...
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Steve Chapman: Donald Trump puts his former aides at risk of assassination
It’s not a state secret that Donald Trump is an extraordinarily petty, spiteful person whose list of grudges would require more pages than a Charles Dickens novel. So no one could have been surprised...
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Daniel DePetris: Donald Trump’s cowboy diplomacy in the Western Hemisphere is...
Donald Trump has a special affinity for William McKinley, the former American president who was struck down by an assassin’s bullet in 1901, ending his second term before it really began. Trump has...
View ArticleLetters: Mayor Brandon Johnson is just deflecting criticism
Just as Mayor Brandon Johnson dismissed criticism of his administration’s handling of the Office of Inspector General investigation into the city’s ethics policy regarding the gift room as a...
View ArticlePaul Vallas: The Dexter Reed settlement shows how criminal justice reform has...
It’s no surprise that Mayor Brandon Johnson’s office is going to pay the family of Dexter Reed $1.25 million, despite the fact that he opened fire on cops during a traffic stop in Chicago’s Humboldt...
View ArticleEditorial: Super Bowl Sunday looms and the Bears are viewers like the rest of...
Next Sunday, football fans will be gathering for the Super Bowl, and the Chicago Bears will be watching from the sidelines — again. The Bears haven’t played in a Super Bowl since 2007, a loss, and...
View ArticleEditorial: An ode to Chicago’s unappreciated suburban commuters
A suburban commuter lives and dies by the weather, and at this point in the year she may feel like she’s through the worst of the winter slog. However, a wise commuter knows it could still snow anytime...
View ArticleHeidi Stevens: Even amid this cloud of cruelty, Sen. Tuberville’s comments...
A cloud of cruelty hangs over so much of our discourse right now, dulling our spirits and conjuring our worst instincts. I don’t blame anyone for tuning it all out and calling a friend or staring at...
View ArticleElizabeth Shackelford: Foreign aid delivered by USAID is for our nation’s...
It comes as little surprise that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) was the first victim of the “Department of Government Efficiency,” or DOGE. After President Donald Trump’s...
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Letters: Elon Musk’s involvement in government affairs is an affront to our...
Elon Musk’s involvement in government affairs, particularly in his fabricated Department of Government Efficiency position — a role that does not exist within any legitimate government structure and to...
View ArticleEditorial: City Council should reject proposed $1.25M settlement in Dexter...
The City Council should not approve the proposed $1.25 million settlement to the survivors of Dexter Reed, shot dead last March by Chicago police after he opened fire on them. This is not to say that...
View ArticleRobert Vargas and Tony Christiano: What rolling back Medicaid expansion would...
Imagine standing at the pharmacy counter, knowing you need an inhaler to breathe and being forced to choose between spending the rest of your paycheck on an inhaler or rent. Thousands of uninsured...
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John Hewko: Here’s how to cure the loneliness epidemic, Chicago-style
In February 1905, a Chicago lawyer named Paul Harris resolved to fill a hole in his life. He had arrived in the city a few years earlier, and though he’d built a successful law practice, something was...
View ArticleLetters: Op-ed about Dr. Anthony Fauci raises credibility questions about writer
The op-ed “Dr. Anthony Fauci should come clean about COVID-19” (Feb. 3) was very disappointing and raises real questions about writer Dr. Cory Franklin’s credibility. I am a cellular and molecular...
View ArticleThe Tribune’s Quotes of the Week quiz for Feb. 8
This week started off with the countries of North America backing away from a trade war. President Donald Trump paused his planned tariffs against Mexico and Canada after his administration negotiated...
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Clarence Page: Enjoy Black History Month — while you still can
Back when a public backlash began to rise up mostly among white parents against “critical race theory,” I joked as to whether Black History Month might be next. I don’t joke about that anymore. In the...
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