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After years of Democrats being cast as out-of-touch cultural elites, Tim Walz and his family...
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Donald Trump's bizarre story of a fraught helicopter ride with Willie Brown has Clarence Page...
Republican attacks on Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz for military credits they say he...
Donald Trump's questioning of Kamala Harris' racial identity at a confab of Black journalists would...
The rumors were swirling that Joe Biden would announce he was bowing out of the...
Every presidential cycle the Heritage Foundation compiles a policy blueprint for the GOP. This time...
Donald Trump's claim in the presidential debate that migrants pouring over the border were taking...
Richard Nixon said, "When the president does it, that means it's not illegal." Nearly 50...
Democrats need a new nominee following Joe Biden's disastrous debate performance. That's not easy for...
When does political protest seem to become an end in itself? Climate firebrand Greta Thunberg, 21, seems to raise that question when looking at photos...
News of Donald Sutherland’s death at age 88 took me back to a day in 1971 when he was protesting the Vietnam War onstage with Jane Fonda and I was...
As an experienced class clown who long has felt the power of comedy to be vastly underappreciated, I was more than tickled to hear that Pope Francis...
Father’s Day always reminds me of the late, great futurist Alvin Toffler’s description of parenthood: “The single greatest preserve of the...
Don’t get nervous, young folks, but talk about a national service mandate has been bubbling up again in Washington. Such talk has been particularly...
’Tis the season for Donald Trump to audition potential running mates while the rest of us speculate on who the lucky winner will be. The trial by...
As American politics have become more polarized in the era of former President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement, we also hear it sound more paranoid....
News that a conservative nonprofit legal group is challenging Evanston’s groundbreaking reparations program got me thinking about the many attempts...
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...
As if suspicions, partisan and otherwise, have not dealt enough blows to our criminal justice system in recent years, along comes Supreme Court...
Graduation speeches are like life and Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates: you never know what you’re going to get. I’m so accustomed to...
Did you hear about the guy who went to a fight and a congressional hearing broke out? Yes, you may have heard that old joke about a hockey game. But...
This era's encampments carry echoes of the "teach-ins" on campuses during the Vietnam War era.
Although I usually find legislative processes to be a good remedy for insomnia, I followed the attempt by the often entertaining — especially when...
Reports of the death of DEI, the widely praised and reviled — take your pick — employment policies to improve diversity, equity and inclusion,...
Who would oppose legislation to outlaw antisemitism? More people than you might think. First, there is the thorny question of definitions. Consider:...
Republican Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio has begun to remind me of an old saying about Chicago weather: If you don’t like it, just wait a few minutes. The...
As pro-Palestinian protests, along with some arrests, have spread to colleges across the country in recent days, I have a feeling akin to what Yogi...
When a friend reminded me that it’s almost time for the Democratic National Convention, I wanted to say, “That’s OK, I’m good with the last...
When President Joe Biden’s administration last week announced the award of $2 million to help “reconnect” Chicago neighborhoods torn apart by...
Black voters have traditionally been pivotal to the fortunes of the Democratic Party, but some recent polls have suggested that they are proving less...
Can we now declare O.J. Simpson’s search for “the real killer” to be officially ended? Not that I expected to find out more than we already...
After keeping his fans and foes alike guessing for years about his views on abortion rights, past and perhaps future President Donald Trump released a...
Republican strategist Karl Rove has some excellent advice for Donald Trump, which, judging by his usual resistance to even the mildest criticism,...
“DEI mayor.” That’s how a troll on X, formerly Twitter, labeled a news clip of Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott delivering an update on the...
On his HBO show “Real Time,” comedian Bill Maher recently went after Democrats for “pandering” to minority groups for votes. Poking holes in...
In Haiti, history repeats itself — repeatedly. And for what remains of Haiti’s troubled government, history seems to keep getting worse. Haitian...
When you think about it, there’s not much rational reason for electric vehicles to be a partisan political issue. But, as we all should know by now,...
How embarrassing. Donald Trump’s well-known history of financial exaggeration appears to be catching up to him in a very inconvenient place, a...
Reports that Donald Trump has made surprising gains among Black voters have raised understandable alarm among my Democratic-leaning friends. And...
Ken Buck is fed up. The Republican lawmaker from eastern Colorado already announced (last November) that he would retire from Congress at the end of...
Ah, such embarrassment. Presidential campaigns will always surprise you, but I didn’t expect Donald Trump, a tireless master of media, to be tripped...
When I saw Donald Trump take an interest in the horrible killing of a Georgia nursing student, I was swept by a profound sense of having been here...
The case House Republicans had against Hunter Biden never seemed like much. But it turned out to be even less than that after the events of last week....
How about this for a novel campaign pitch? “I’m being indicted for you, the Black population.” Yes, that’s Donald Trump, the former, and...
An Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are “children” offers a sad example of the age-old law of unintended consequences. Instead of...
Fani Willis should have known better. It doesn’t take a law degree to know that the appearance of impropriety can be just as damaging as the real...
I’m so old that I can remember when moderate Republicans such as Colin Powell, former secretary of state, clung to hopes that Donald Trump might...
When we think about the economy, it’s not just numbers that matter. It’s also how we feel about the numbers. Public discontent about the economy,...
What? Nikki Haley is still in the race? Yes, despite pressure from her fellow Republicans to drop her challenge to front-runner and former President...