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Clarence Page: Tim Walz helps Democrats offer voters a better reflection of themselves

After years of Democrats being cast as out-of-touch cultural elites, Tim Walz and his family...

25.08.2024 6

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Clarence Page: Maybe it’s in the air. A timely step towards semiretirement.

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18.08.2024 8

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Clarence Page: Biden’s campaign exit has Trump flailing, sort of like a sputtering helicopter

Donald Trump's bizarre story of a fraught helicopter ride with Willie Brown has Clarence Page...

14.08.2024 5

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Clarence Page: Why ‘stolen valor’ political fights are so intense — and misplaced in the cases of Walz and Vance

Republican attacks on Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz for military credits they say he...

11.08.2024 6

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Clarence Page: Donald Trump and the ‘controversy’ over Kamala Harris’ racial identity

Donald Trump's questioning of Kamala Harris' racial identity at a confab of Black journalists would...

07.08.2024 30

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Clarence Page: Biden hangs on, but the questions persist about whether he should continue to run

The rumors were swirling that Joe Biden would announce he was bowing out of the...

14.07.2024 60

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Clarence Page: Donald Trump takes us for fools when he says he knows nothing about ‘Project 2025’

Every presidential cycle the Heritage Foundation compiles a policy blueprint for the GOP. This time...

10.07.2024 10

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Clarence Page: What exactly is a ‘Black job,’ Mr. Trump?

Donald Trump's claim in the presidential debate that migrants pouring over the border were taking...

07.07.2024 10

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Clarence Page: Five decades after Watergate, the Supreme Court has given us the ‘Imperial Presidency’

Richard Nixon said, "When the president does it, that means it's not illegal." Nearly 50...

03.07.2024 10

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Clarence Page: The sad reality? Biden needs to make way for another Democratic nominee.

Democrats need a new nominee following Joe Biden's disastrous debate performance. That's not easy for...

30.06.2024 10

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Clarence Page: In the ‘Omnicause’, colliding causes can defeat each other’s purposes

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...

26.06.2024 10

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Clarence Page: This young GI met Donald Sutherland in a bygone era. RIP to an original.

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...

23.06.2024 30

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Clarence Page: Pope Francis believes the world needs to laugh more. He’s right.

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...

19.06.2024 5

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Clarence Page: Another Father’s Day, another election-year discussion on the state of the Black family

Father’s Day always reminds me of the late, great futurist Alvin Toffler’s description of parenthood: “The single greatest preserve of the...

16.06.2024 10

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Clarence Page: Talk of mandated national service percolates among former Trump advisers

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...

12.06.2024 10

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Clarence Page: Wait, so Jim Crow was a good period for Blacks in America? Could have fooled me.

’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...

09.06.2024 10

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Clarence Page: Dr. Anthony Fauci’s hearing gave us politics at its most paranoid

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....

05.06.2024 40

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Clarence Page: Evanston’s reparations program, meant to attack discrimination, is accused of being discriminatory

News that a conservative nonprofit legal group is challenging Evanston’s groundbreaking reparations program got me thinking about the many attempts...

02.06.2024 20

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Clarence Page: Four years after George Floyd’s death, what’s happened to the racial reckoning?

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...

29.05.2024 40

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Clarence Page: The credibility crisis at the Supreme Court hits a fever pitch

As if suspicions, partisan and otherwise, have not dealt enough blows to our criminal justice system in recent years, along comes Supreme Court...

26.05.2024 20

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Clarence Page: NFL’s Harrison Butker’s hard-right social views kicked up a storm of controversy

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...

22.05.2024 10

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Clarence Page: The congressional circus is back in town, this time over the Biden audiotapes

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...

19.05.2024 10

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Clarence Page: This era’s protesters could stand to ask a few more questions

This era's encampments carry echoes of the "teach-ins" on campuses during the Vietnam War era.

15.05.2024 40

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Clarence Page: Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn’t run the government after all

Although I usually find legislative processes to be a good remedy for insomnia, I followed the attempt by the often entertaining — especially when...

12.05.2024 50

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Clarence Page: DEI on campus and in corporations is due for a change

Reports of the death of DEI, the widely praised and reviled — take your pick — employment policies to improve diversity, equity and inclusion,...

08.05.2024 20

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Clarence Page: Congress enters thorny debate over how to define antisemitism

Who would oppose legislation to outlaw antisemitism? More people than you might think. First, there is the thorny question of definitions. Consider:...

05.05.2024 20

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Clarence Page: J.D. Vance, running mate for Donald Trump? That would complete quite the political journey.

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...

01.05.2024 20

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Clarence Page: Campus protests carry echoes of five decades ago

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...

28.04.2024 10

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Clarence Page: A new Chicago mayor faces similar issues to the ones that dogged Richard J. Daley in 1968

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...

24.04.2024 30

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Clarence Page: A small step toward reversing the decades-long community harm of Chicago’s expressways

When President Joe Biden’s administration last week announced the award of $2 million to help “reconnect” Chicago neighborhoods torn apart by...

21.04.2024 20

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Clarence Page: Loss of support from Republican evangelicals suits MAGA crowd just fine

Black voters have traditionally been pivotal to the fortunes of the Democratic Party, but some recent polls have suggested that they are proving less...

17.04.2024 10

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Clarence Page: Better public understanding of domestic violence was the one silver lining of O.J. Simpson’s fall

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...

13.04.2024 10

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Clarence Page: Trump put himself in an anti-abortion trap that he’s yet to escape

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...

10.04.2024 7

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Clarence Page: Donald Trump goes all in defending Jan. 6 mob and Karl Rove goes off

Republican strategist Karl Rove has some excellent advice for Donald Trump, which, judging by his usual resistance to even the mildest criticism,...

07.04.2024 30

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Clarence Page: Deriding DEI is the right’s attempt at a polite way to attack civil rights

“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...

03.04.2024 50

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Clarence Page: Census forms are changing again — because we are

On his HBO show “Real Time,” comedian Bill Maher recently went after Democrats for “pandering” to minority groups for votes. Poking holes in...

31.03.2024 10

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Clarence Page: Haiti’s tragic history just keeps repeating itself

In Haiti, history repeats itself — repeatedly. And for what remains of Haiti’s troubled government, history seems to keep getting worse. Haitian...

27.03.2024 10

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Clarence Page: Is it an electric car or a Bidenmobile? Greening of transportation gets political.

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,...

24.03.2024 10

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Clarence Page: The busting of the myth of Donald Trump’s business genius

How embarrassing. Donald Trump’s well-known history of financial exaggeration appears to be catching up to him in a very inconvenient place, a...

20.03.2024 10

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Clarence Page: This time Trump really does seem to be making Black voter inroads. Why?

Reports that Donald Trump has made surprising gains among Black voters have raised understandable alarm among my Democratic-leaning friends. And...

17.03.2024 10

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Clarence Page: Rep. Ken Buck’s sudden retirement yet another setback for a reeling GOP House leadership

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...

14.03.2024 10

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Clarence Page: For one night, Biden was the media master while Trump was fumbling

Ah, such embarrassment. Presidential campaigns will always surprise you, but I didn’t expect Donald Trump, a tireless master of media, to be tripped...

10.03.2024 10

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Clarence Page: Immigration is on Americans’ minds. And politicians are seizing the opportunity.

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...

06.03.2024 5

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Clarence Page: House GOP gives us a big Hunter Biden nothingburger

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....

03.03.2024 8

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Clarence Page: Donald Trump’s bizarre pitch to Black voters is martyrdom marketing

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...

28.02.2024 40

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Clarence Page: Frozen embryos are people? In the world of politics, at least.

An Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are “children” offers a sad example of the age-old law of unintended consequences. Instead of...

25.02.2024 8

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Clarence Page: Fani Willis and the court of public opinion

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...

21.02.2024 9

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Clarence Page: On Trump’s befuddling hold on the GOP and the fizzling of the ‘Never Trump’ movement

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...

18.02.2024 10

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Clarence Page: Economic gloominess in spite of upbeat data also affects immigration debate

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,...

14.02.2024 9

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Clarence Page: How to fight Donald Trump as a Republican and survive

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...

11.02.2024 5

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