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“Fascist” is a strong, widely misunderstood, often overused political description. But in terms of Donald Trump’s MAGA movement, the shoe...
He’s not on the ballot but Donald Trump is making national politics into a contest for who can run the farthest to the right, producing a lot more...
Viewership for the special House committee probing the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol have been better than expected in the summertime months, but will...
New revelations offer hope that the murder of Emmett Till will finally find justice, but it still lacks the whole truth.
Donald Trump’s former legal team offers a novel “willful blindness” excuse for sticking with him, but as willful as he was, he wasn’t blind.
Think you have a right to privacy? Guess again. Like abortion fights, internet privacy is under siege in the age of Google tracking and pursuit of...
How do right-wing media handle the horrors of the July Fourth mass shooting in Highland Park? Not well, illustrating how easy it is for our...
The accused gunman in the July 4 mass shooting in Highland Park could be a window into a disturbing culture of internet nihilism that bears closer...
George Washington tried to warn us about plots like the coup that Donald Trump is alleged to have attempted. The problem may be in the way political...
Once Democrats get past their shock over the Supreme Court’s undoing of Roe v. Wade, they need to view their outrage as something to rally around.
How conservative is the new Supreme Court? Roe v. Wade is only the first of a parade of pushbacks to an America we might have thought was long gone.
During the Juneteenth weekend, Donald Trump’s Republicans behaved in ways that make me wonder whether the Civil War really ended.
While the House Select Committee tries to hold the Jan. 6 rioters accountable, both parties need to fix the loopholes in the Electoral Count Act that...
Republicans have long pinned the “soft on crime” label on Democrats. Now is the time to push back.
Conservatives cheer progressive San Francisco prosecutor Chesa Boudin’s loss, but it shouldn’t be seen as the beginning of a trend, unless...
With polarization, extremist views have become mainstream strategies in political primaries. A lot of voters are sick of it, but will they show it on...
Johnny Depp calls himself a champion for “free speech,” but his courthouse victory over his ex-wife Amber Heard could have the opposite effect.
In the debate over gun safety that inevitably follows such mass shooting horrors, systemic failures of this magnitude tend only to drive more people...
Oh, no, he didn’t. As Texans mourned the massacre at a grade school, Gov. Greg Abbott threw shade — where else? — at Chicago. Governor, heal...
A massacre in Buffalo, the latest in a depressing series, drives a news wedge in our racial divide and a time to reexamine how online poison can be...
Promoters of so-called “replacement theory” don’t understand the “melting pot” that made this country strong—or don’t want to...
Racial disparities in abortion rates only magnify the tragedy if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade’s abortion rights.
Elon Musk may help Donald Trump get back on Twitter again, as long as it’s good for business.
“Hillbilly Elegy” author J.D. Vance reversed his earlier criticism of Donald Trump to win Ohio’s Republican nomination to an open Senate seat....
Roe v. Wade, the anti-abortion decision, is on the verge of being overturned, partly because Democrats took it too much for granted.
The Food and Drug Administration’s proposed ban on menthol cigarette sales is long overdue, particularly in the Black community where the flavored...
Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter will help “free speech,” he says. But the realities of trolls and misinformation mean that he, too, may find...
People called “The McLaughlin Group” the shouting show. But as one former panelist finds, it was pleasantly informative and productive in ways...
An often-repeated story about W.C. Fields holds that as he approached the end of his life, a friend was surprised to find him reading a Bible. ...
You know a political party is in trouble when its leading voices turn on each other in their search for someone to blame. Democrats, as Will Rogers...
First he said he would, then he didn’t. Less than a week after the announcement that Tesla CEO Elon Musk had become Twitter’s largest shareholder...
Of all the questions that ranged from wise to wacky during Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearings to the Supreme Court, one sticks...
Compared to the instant shock of watching Will Smith slap Chris Rock at the Academy Awards, the Recording Academy seemed to be delivering a quieter...
Character, according to an old saying, is defined by what you do when you think nobody’s looking. So, one might say, are a lot of criminal...
If you think you’ve heard enough about what some are calling Will Smith’s “slap heard around the world,” I beg your indulgence. Smith...
The Supreme Court nomination hearing for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson should have gone down as easily as ice cream on a hot summer day. That was...
When Mitch McConnell, the Senate’s Republican leader from Kentucky, suggested that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson had “a special empathy for...
After witnessing Vladimir Putin brutally, yet routinely, assault basic freedoms in Russia and Ukraine, it is reassuring to think of free speech as...
Hey, is that young Black actor in HBO’s “The Gilded Age” supposed to be Ida B. Wells? I’m not the only viewer who has asked that question...
True to his profession, actor Jussie Smollett reacted to his sentence of jail time for his hate-crime hoax, with the passion of a courtroom drama....
How should we Americans feel about reports from Ukraine that, amid the chaos of Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, some Africans, Arabs and other...
When President Joe Biden called for “funding the police” in his State of the Union speech, some outraged conservatives responded like a child...
You can tell a lot about the strength of President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee by the weakness and shallowness of the political backlash...
It brings cold comfort to Mitt Romney, I’m sure, to be reminded that he was right about Vladimir Putin in 2012. But it offers a cautionary note to...
Chicago, historically known for its jazz, blues and electronic “house” dance music, more recently has given birth to something called “drill”...
It was poignantly appropriate that the news of P.J. O’Rourke’s death was broken by a tweet from his friend Peter Sagal, host of the Chicago-based...
Pardon me if you’ve heard this story (I tell it a lot), but Martin Luther King Jr. Day always reminds me of how I learned the word...
When I heard that Rep. Bobby Rush had decided to call it quits after an impressive three decades of service in Congress, I was reminded — to borrow...