You don’t have to be a journalist to demand answers from people in charge. But you do have to demand answers from people in charge to be a journalist.
Heidi Stevens: Access is not a trophy the White House can hand out to its favorite reporters
Category: Columnists
Laura Washington: Hair shaming is a painful part of Black history
Black people are told that our beautiful kinky crowns are undesirable. We are compelled to conform to a white version of beauty.
Daniel DePetris: The Arab world, alarmed by Donald Trump, tries to figure out Gaza
Egypt’s plan for rebuilding Gaza is far better than Donald Trump’s idea in terms of feasibility.
John T. Shaw: Danielle Sassoon’s stirring act of statesmanship sends forth a ‘ripple of hope’
Danielle Sassoon had reasons to quietly go along with the Trump program. But she choose a different path.
Heidi Stevens: Banning DEI and race-based programs in schools chips away at the very mission of education
To be a sharper, deeper, more careful, more creative, more flexible thinker requires diversity — inside classrooms and all across campuses.
Laura Washington: Studs Terkel had a quality today’s Democrats so sorely need
Studs Terkel spoke authentically in the language that the working classes of America understood and embraced.
Clarence Page: A timely pushback against too much Trump-Musk secrecy
Recent resignations of prosecutors are an encouraging sign that some political conservatives remain true to the standards we would like to see.
Heidi Stevens: ‘What a ride! I love you.’ They were married for 72 years and died a day apart, holding hands until the end
Marie and Kevin Mayer’s five children found a drawer full of love letters — mostly from their dad to their mom.
David Greising: Michael Madigan and Rod Blagojevich were products of a culture that tolerates lawlessness
Yes, the corrupt Michael Madigans of the world must be punished. But better yet would be a reformed system that protects Illinoisans.
Daniel DePetris: Is Congress fine with giving up its war powers?
There’s a fundamental power that Congress has largely deferred to the executive: the power to declare war.