Segregationist Strom Thurmond’s senate-speech record was broken by Booker, a man whose rights he fought to deny.
Category: Opinion
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.
Ray Cavanaugh: Scholars failed to tell the truth about the genocidal Khmer Rouge
Positive views of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia remained prevalent among scholars, who dismissed refugee reports of forced labor and savagery.
Letters: Investments in trauma-informed literacy should be a priority
Meeting a child’s basic needs and ensuring that they feel safe and calm are vital, yet commonly overlooked, conditions to learning.
Jim Nowlan: Democrats on Illinois’ high court must recuse themselves on gerrymandering
Democratic justices on the Illinois Supreme Court are mired in conflicts of interest; they must recuse themselves from the redistricting lawsuit.
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.
Steve Chapman: Crackdown on abortion providers and seekers is reminiscent of the Fugitive Slave Act
The parallels between anti-abortion states cracking down on abortion seekers and providers and the slavery fight are hard to miss.
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.
Letters: Why wasn’t the president involved in the top secret chat about US attack plans?
President Donald Trump cannot excuse himself from this egregious national security breach by simply saying he “didn’t know.”