February 20, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Democrats with presidential ambitions should be calculating how much longer they can defer to President Joe Biden. Read story
February 19, 2023, 6:02am Columns
The choices are not binary; there is some gray area. But in pondering government policy and racial disparities and economic inequity, there are two well-worn paths: We can try to rectify the sins of the past and risk the unintended consequences; or we can ignore those sins and bury them… Read story
February 19, 2023, 6:01am Columns
The latest study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is terrifying. Twice as many girls as boys felt persistent sadness in the 2021 Youth Risk Behavior Survey given to 17,000 high school students, the highest rate in a decade. Read story
February 19, 2023, 6:01am Columns
With the recent Chicago Auto Show, talk of electric cars has kicked into high gear. It’s hard to turn on a radio or television and not hear joyful coverage of our grand transition to electric. Read story
February 18, 2023, 6:01am Columns
And so some angry, mentally ill person decides to shoot random human beings for no particular reason. Read story
February 18, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Around Valentine’s Day, love is certainly in the air. Society would surely benefit if marriage was in the atmosphere, too. Compelling data shows that strong families, which include married parents, make for safer communities and a more robust economy. Read story
February 17, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Recently, legislatures in three more states targeted trans kids, expanding the political effort to use transgender issues as the latest wedge in right-wing politics. Read story
February 16, 2023, 6:01am Columns
‘We used to be No. 1 in the world in infrastructure,” President Joe Biden lamented last week. “We’ve sunk to 13th.” And then, as if he couldn’t believe it: “The United States of America, 13th in the world in infrastructure.” Read story
February 16, 2023, 6:01am Columns
The Chinese balloon that floated across the United States this month, apparently on a mission to collect intelligence, began its journey as a curiosity. Then it became a political metaphor: a symbol of U.S. weakness to Republicans, a sign of President Joe Biden’s prudence to Democrats. Read story
February 15, 2023, 6:03am Columns
Joe Biden’s America has embarked on a muscular industrial policy aimed at curbing climate change, building U.S. manufacturing and competing with China. Read story
