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Category: Editorials
Editorial: To improve law enforcement in Chicago and elsewhere, there’s no substitute for cops policing themselves
The number of internal Chicago Police Department citations of rank-and-file officers surged last year. That’s good.
Editorial: Gov. JB Pritzker reads the electoral tea leaves and, hooray, delivers a budget free of tax hikes
Gov. JB Pritzker’s fiscal 2026 budget proposal doesn’t raise taxes and zeroes out a costly program providing healthcare to many undocumented immigrants.
Editorial: Antisemitic fears in Chicago coalesce around a controversial puppet
Chicago has an issue with antisemitism. Beginning with a puppet.
Editorial: On tolls, Indiana looks to take a page out of Illinois’ book
Indiana, take some advice from us: Don’t mess with the tolls.
Editorial: Again with the graduated income tax legislation, Springfield?
Springfield, stop raising the specter of new taxes. You haven’t earned the right to ask Illinoisans for more.
Editorial: In praise of federal prosecutor Danielle Sassoon’s bravery in the face of Trumpian intimidation
Danielle Sassoon’s refusal to dismiss charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams in furtherance of Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown was a profile in American courage.
Editorial: Musk bid for OpenAI exposes hypocrisy of business model
Open AI has copied our content, created by generations of human labor and made up of dogged reporting, cogent analyses and critical thinking.
Editorial: Brandon Johnson, brooking no diversity of opinion, summons his inner Donald Trump
Mayor Brandon Johnson, in highly revealing comments before a South Side church audience, said he wants only loyalists in his administration.
Editorial: The US auto industry will fall behind if it retreats from electric vehicles
Here’s hoping the anti-EV rhetoric from the Oval Office is just talk, and that the influential Musk is right about “ridiculously good” times ahead.