To be a sharper, deeper, more careful, more creative, more flexible thinker requires diversity — inside classrooms and all across campuses.
Heidi Stevens: Banning DEI and race-based programs in schools chips away at the very mission of education
Category: Opinion
Letters: What gutting the Department of Education will actually do
Paul Vallas misses the point of destroying the Department of Education in the first place.
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.
Ian Kelly: Has America first become America alone?
The message sent by Donald Trump could not be clearer to our allies in Europe — after 75 years of shared security, you’re on your own.
Letters: We need Democrats to act like adults. Donald Trump will be vindicated.
Why must we waste time when we need to get things done for the American people?
Law experts: COPA’s investigations are superior to anything we’ve seen in Chicago police accountability history
The efforts by Chicago’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability represent a dramatic break from the long history of police impunity in Chicago.
Reshma Saujani: President Donald Trump should give parents a tax cut for child care
Congress and the new administration have the power to fix the child care crisis. But so far, our new leaders are refusing to act.
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.
US representatives: Newly passed bipartisan legislation will protect vulnerable children and families
The Supporting America’s Children and Families Act provides funding for services that assist children and families in need.
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.