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Letters: Why wasn’t the president involved in the top secret chat about US...
Is anybody else bothered by the fact that, on March 24, President Donald Trump said he just found out that members of his Cabinet and national security team were discussing the Houthi attack plans on...
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Editorial: Is Lincoln Yards becoming Chicago’s new Block 37?
News that Sterling Bay, the development firm that has struggled to realize its epic plans for the 55 acres of prime North Side real estate known as Lincoln Yards, is relinquishing about half that land...
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Editorial: Chicago Teachers Union ‘won’ what was long on the table. Financial...
In the end, the leadership of the Chicago Teachers Union accepted a contract that largely mirrored what Chicago Public Schools leadership had offered for months. The spin, of course, from CTU and Mayor...
View ArticleSteve Chapman: Crackdown on abortion providers and seekers is reminiscent of...
In the decades before the Civil War, Americans were deeply divided over slavery. When enslaved people fled north to escape from bondage, Southern owners demanded help in recapturing their property....
View ArticleEditorial: Chicago has a domestic violence crisis hiding in plain sight
Chicagoans got a taste of the macabre when a story broke last November of the discovery of the dead body of a woman found next to her own severed foot at the bottom of a South Loop stairwell. But the...
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Jim Nowlan: Democrats on Illinois’ high court must recuse themselves on...
Democratic justices on the Illinois Supreme Court are so hopelessly mired in conflicts of interest on partisan issues that they must recuse themselves from all such proceedings, including the present...
View ArticleLetters: Investments in trauma-informed literacy should be a priority
I applaud the Tribune’s editorials on literacy. Success in school, employment and life is utterly dependent on the ability to read and write. Ensuring that our state’s children are literate has a...
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Laura Washington: Bernie Sanders’ handoff to AOC looks like a fait accompli
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders is a national progressive icon, moving voters to “feel the Bern” in two presidential campaigns. The self-proclaimed democratic socialist senator from Vermont has built a...
View ArticleHeidi Stevens: For those of us hungry for hope, Sen. Cory Booker’s...
I dropped off my son at lacrosse practice Monday night, drove home to start dinner, threw some clothes in the dryer, unloaded the dishwasher, re-loaded the dishwasher, and turned on the Chicago Bulls...
View ArticleAndrew V. Papcahristos: Why America can’t afford to silence its universities
A rare point of agreement across the political spectrum for several decades was that money didn’t matter much in education. Conservatives opposed spending increases as wasteful; many progressives...
View ArticleEditorial: Pay your debts to the city, Chicagoans, and save a buck in the...
Parking fines and speed-camera tickets are costly in Chicago and it’s all too easy to let them grow yet more expensive. That’s because most tickets doled out by the city are subject to a penalty of...
View ArticleLetters: President Donald Trump’s aspirations for Greenland remind me of...
President Donald Trump claiming that the United States needs “to have Greenland” for our own security and ensure peace “for the entire world” and Vice President JD Vance arguing that we have “no other...
View ArticleElizabeth Shackelford: President Donald Trump’s tariffs will cost us
As President Donald Trump laid out his case for sweeping new tariffs, it sounded reasonable. He was only imposing on other countries the burden they impose on us. Those tariffs, he said, would boost...
View ArticleLetters: Americans will suffer from President Donald Trump’s tariff campaign
President Donald Trump has announced sweeping and strong tariffs against foreign goods imported into this country. As an immediate consequence, the stock market has tanked. The economy will follow. And...
View ArticleChristine Ledbetter: Smithsonian leader stands tall as Trump targets...
Lonnie G. Bunch III has never been afraid to address white supremacy. The leader of the Smithsonian Institution’s 21 museums and the founding director of the National Museum of African American History...
View ArticleEditorial: Want more voter participation? Here’s a way to get people more...
Turnout in this week’s municipal elections across Cook County was low. That’s nothing new. A measly 286,301 out of 1.7 million suburban Cook County registered voters — 17% — cast a ballot in their...
View ArticleCory Franklin: For conspiracy theorists, no defeat is final
The recent release of the last reported bunch of classified files about the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy yielded information on various mysterious CIA plans worldwide — but no agency...
View ArticleEditorial: America just dumped the world. New loves will be forthcoming.
As antacid-chugging Americans watched their portfolios and retirement account balances drop Thursday, it was easy to forget another consequence of Donald Trump’s ill-considered splaying the day before...
View ArticleThe Tribune’s Quotes of the Week quiz for April 5
Well, the first week of April had lots in store for us, so let’s get right into it! The stock market took a major downturn this week after President Donald Trump announced new tariffs, including a 10%...
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Andy Shaw: Need a break from Chicago? I found a winter paradise in Mexico.
My better half and I just finished our second magic winter in San Antonio, but not the one in Texas with the iconic Alamo and a very cool Southwest vibe that almost makes the concept of Texas more...
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