As a bunch of families watched their children’s dreams come true, it reminds us that, really, we mostly dream of the same stuff.
Heidi Stevens: What a night of watching kids’ dreams come true at Wrigley Field reminds me about humanity
Category: Columnists
‘Ask Amy’ says goodbye, making way for new advice columnist, R. Eric Thomas
Amy Dickinson is not retiring, however. She’s opening a library in her hometown, taking a stab at writing fiction and continuing as a panelist for “Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me.”
David Greising: Aldermen gain upper hand over ShotSpotter’s future
ShotSpotter brought about an unusual harmony between aldermen from the Northwest and Southwest sides and aldermen from the South and West sides.
Clarence Page: NFL’s Harrison Butker’s hard-right social views kicked up a storm of controversy
Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker had a lot of red-meat views to share with graduates of Benedictine College.
Daniel DePetris: An Iranian hard-liner passes from the scene. What happens next?
The Iranian president’s death will have at least a short-term effect, but the system that has ruled Iran since 1979 will find a way to churn on.
Laura Washington: The economy trumps all when it comes to the presidential race
Rising and elevated prices cast an ominous shadow over President Joe Biden’s political accomplishments.
Clarence Page: The congressional circus is back in town, this time over the Biden audiotapes
The Thursday night fights on Capitol Hill featured Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene and Democrat Jasmine Crockett trading “mean girls” jabs.
Heidi Stevens: What we take away from our kids — and ourselves — when we turn into the dress police at prom
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.
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.