Inevitably there is a well-intentioned grown-up (or five) looking past the joy and affection and pride, and wringing their hands over the prom dresses.
Category: Columnists
Elizabeth Shackelford: An alarming number of people are suffering displacement across the world
As of mid-2023, 110 million people were forcibly displaced globally. Mass migration can carry destabilization elsewhere.
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.
Daniel DePetris: Vladimir Putin has much to celebrate. But not the Russian people.
Vladimir Putin is digging a big hole for the country he claims to love so much.
Clarence Page: Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn’t run the government after all
Those of us who believe that Congress should find common ground could derive hope in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s failed lurch toward autocracy.
Heidi Stevens: As we send our babies to college, do we do enough to celebrate the village that raised them?
Sending my first-born child to college has me feeling contemplative and raw and, above all else, grateful beyond belief for our village.
David Greising: Bears pitch for a lakefront stadium fizzled. Here’s how they can move forward.
In order to take the Bears’ lakefront stadium proposal even a first step toward “yes,” CEO Kevin Warren will need to refocus the financial discussion.
Clarence Page: DEI on campus and in corporations is due for a change
If the value of a DEI program does not help either the work environment or profits, I agree that it should be questioned and improved.
Daniel DePetris: The implications of an Israeli assault on Rafah are horrible
Sending Israeli forces into Rafah has the potential to do a great deal of harm to U.S.-Israel relations.
Laura Washington: Deep divides over war in Middle East couldn’t come at a worse time for Democrats
If young voters stay home in November because they are turned off by the heavy-handed handling of the war in Gaza, Democrats will suffer mightily.