What Donald Trump appears to underappreciate is that U.S. trading partners can forge, and bolster, other alliances.
Editorial: America just dumped the world. New loves will be forthcoming.
Category: Editorials
Editorial: Want more voter participation? Here’s a way to get people more engaged.
Illinois could borrow from other states’ playbooks and give voters more of a chance to get binding referendums on the ballot.
Editorial: Trump’s foolish tariffs take the US economy back centuries
President Donald Trump has launched a global trade war, as he promised to do during the campaign.
Editorial: Chicago has a domestic violence crisis hiding in plain sight
Domestic violence in and around Chicago began an annual increase in 2019, and has spiked again to start 2025.
Editorial: Chicago Teachers Union ‘won’ what was long on the table. Financial strife abides.
In the end, the Chicago Teachers Union accepted a collective-bargaining deal that essentially had been on the table for months.
Editorial: Is Lincoln Yards becoming Chicago’s new Block 37?
A bank’s seizure from developer Sterling Bay of half the 55 acres to be developed as Lincoln Yards should be a wake-up call.
Editorial: Aldermen warn Mayor Johnson not to sideline them on his $175 million problem. He should listen.
Aldermen are warning Mayor Johnson not to bypass them in plugging a sudden $175 million budget hole. He should listen.
Editorial: Tiffany Henyard soon will be gone, but Dolton is stuck with a wildly overpaid schools boss
School boards need to focus on student success – not administrative enrichment.
Editorial: Illinois has too many townships. Pritzker-backed bills to prune them should get action.
Do you know which township you live in? Many people don’t. But Illinois has 1,426 of them, so it’s worth paying attention to what they do.
Editorial: Trump administration’s Signal breach was a dangerous error. Treat it as such, Mr. President.
The inadvertent inclusion of a journalist in internal administration discussions on an imminent military operation demands a more serious response.