Omnicause is a new term in our increasingly complicated world of activism that has advocates for one cause getting involved in many others.
Category: Columnists
Laura Washington: This week’s presidential debate has the makings of history
Thursday’s faceoff between former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden could be a seismic moment.
Clarence Page: This young GI met Donald Sutherland in a bygone era. RIP to an original.
In the early 1970s, Donald Sutherland, who passed away last week, was an inspiration to those of us in the military.
Heidi Stevens: Barrier-breaking pageant victories are cause for celebration, not manufactured panic
Expanding our definitions of beauty and inviting pageant audiences to appreciate a more inclusive collection of humans is not lowering the bar.
David Greising: When will CPD root out police officers with extremist ties?
Chicago’s police force is a regrettable outlier on the issue of removing and barring cops with extremist ties.
Clarence Page: Pope Francis believes the world needs to laugh more. He’s right.
Pope Francis met with a large number of well-known comedians and reassured them that irreverence is a good thing. God can take a joke.
Daniel DePetris: What was the point of last weekend’s Ukraine peace summit?
The Ukraine peace summit wasn’t about peace at all. There were no negotiations going on between the two combatants; Russia wasn’t even invited.
Clarence Page: Another Father’s Day, another election-year discussion on the state of the Black family
It’s Father’s Day in an election year, which gets Clarence Page reminiscing about Barack Obama’s 2008 speech on Black fathers.
Elizabeth Shackelford: The far right makes unnerving gains in EU elections
The steady trend of increased support for a platform that had been on the fringes of European politics since World War II remains alarming.
Heidi Stevens: A reminder to give our kids the space to dream big about their one precious life — including who they’ll love
Part of the deal when we are gifted with kids is to love them exactly the way they are. That goes for our LGBTQ kids and our straight kids.