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.
Daniel DePetris: An Iranian hard-liner passes from the scene. What happens next?
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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.
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.