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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...
Why is DEI upsetting so many people when so few people seem to know what the heck it really is? Such is the confusion I perceive in the dialogue that...
In the days leading up to the national holiday to honor the great champion of nonviolence, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., peace was disrupted by...
In striking contrast to his usual bombast, Donald Trump’s victory speech in Iowa sounded surprisingly humble, a quality not often associated with...
I wrote before about Nikki Haley and her gaffe in December about the causes of the Civil War. But the subject still strikes a chord with me. Haley’s...
It occurs to me, as the presidential race heats up, that I have not yet heard a question that seems to come up as the season for party conventions...
As a long, dreaded January chill made life on the streets unthinkable for waves of migrants bused north from Texas, city, state and federal officials...
President Joe Biden’s team looks to Taylor Swift for a touchdown. Considering the obvious ability that pop star Taylor Swift and her NFL star...
The editorial “Chicago should cool down on banning natural gas in new buildings and let this be debated statewide” (Jan. 28) includes erroneous...
President Joe Biden’s team looks to Taylor Swift for a touchdown. Considering the obvious ability that pop star Taylor Swift and her NFL star...
As a long, dreaded January chill made life on the streets unthinkable for waves of migrants bused north from Texas, city, state and federal officials...
I have just finished reading the op-ed by William Choslovsky (“Dickens Greenway a typical Chicago solution in search of a problem,” Jan. 18). I...
It occurs to me, as the presidential race heats up, that I have not yet heard a question that seems to come up as the season for party conventions...
As a recent editorial notes (“We’re sad to see Metra’s 10-ride pass go,” Jan. 5), effective Feb. 1, Metra is radically changing its ticketing...
I wrote before about Nikki Haley and her gaffe in December about the causes of the Civil War. But the subject still strikes a chord with me. Haley’s...
In striking contrast to his usual bombast, Donald Trump’s victory speech in Iowa sounded surprisingly humble, a quality not often associated with...
In the days leading up to the national holiday to honor the great champion of nonviolence, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., peace was disrupted by...
Why is DEI upsetting so many people when so few people seem to know what the heck it really is? Such is the confusion I perceive in the dialogue that...
Like a political version of a veteran sports writer, as the presidential primaries approach I have been expecting some hapless candidate to throw out...
As someone who has appreciated the power of protest and activism on achieving progress in the U.S. and the world, it’s hard for me to watch the...
For many of us old enough to remember Archie Bunker’s living room chair before it became a Smithsonian Museum exhibit, Norman Lear helped television...
One can support Israel but at the same time be horrified at the gross disproportionality of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing...
Person of the Year? Congratulations to Taylor Swift and her teeming multitudes of “Swifty” fans for her being named Time magazine’s Person of...
Over his century on Earth, Henry Kissinger left a big mark, love him or hate him. And a lot of people sure did hate him. Take Anthony Bourdain. The...
In his Nov. 27 op-ed (“It is true. There are people who don’t want to work anymore”), Jim Nowlan tries to make the point that people are...
You can learn a lot about social changes by looking at one yardstick in particular: the shifting male-female ratio in college enrollment. For example,...
Well, it took long enough. House Speaker Mike Johnson has finally started releasing 44,000 hours of security footage from the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol...
Too bad. I seriously have been considering buying a Tesla but you-know-who, the company’s famous CEO, seems determined to drive me away at top...
Donald Trump’s acting more “African” again Back when he was the new host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” South Africa-born comedian...
“Gut punch.” With that memorable description, Sen. J.D. Vance, Republican from Ohio, spoke for many of his fellow partisans as Democrats racked up...
It’s high anxiety time for the party of President Joe Biden, although that’s hardly a novel condition for Democrats. Only a year before the 2024...