A University of Chicago student who happens to be white objected to an undergraduate anthropology class titled “The Problem of Whiteness.”
Why Pershing? July 15 marks the 75th anniversary of his death in 1948. July 15 also marks the one-year anniversary of the beginning of the removal of 763,000 ceramic tiles from Pershing Auditorium to preserve what has become known as the Pershing Mural.
As a strong believer in the First Amendment, I respect the Colorado graphics artist who didn’t want to make wedding websites for gay couples, even though I strongly oppose her stance.
Reading about the Supreme Court’s unsurprising affirmative action ruling, I was reminded of Sen. Hubert Humphrey’s defense of the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Supreme Court had no choice but to knock down the loan reduction program
🎧 Topics include local politics, DNA tests and gender identity.
Commentary: Increasing polarization is behind the erosion of national pride.
A bipartisan bill introduced by Sens. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., would close several loopholes identified by The Washington Post in an investigative series published last fall. The investigation found hundreds of retired U.S. military officers taking lucrative jobs advising foreign governments known for human rights atrocities and political repression. The Retired Officers Conflict of Interest Act would require public reporting about who is working on behalf of which foreign governments and for how much.
In celebration of the United States’ birthday, here are five surprising facts about the nation’s founding document:
The state of the republic is precarious. But I am hopeful that democracy will prevail because it is resilient.
More Americans over the last several decades have abandoned their faith — usually Christianity — to join the ranks of the non-religious. This includes people who describe themselves as atheists, agnostics or “nothing in particular.”
It’s as if Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has gathered up every hateful and half-baked scheme ever concocted to keep immigrants out of this nation of immigrants and used them to piece together his platform on one of America’s most divisive topics.
The death of a pregnant woman can only be a tragedy. But the loss of 2016 Olympic medalist Tori Bowie, a Mississippi native who died in May from childbirth complications, also serves as a reminder that America’s maternal mortality rate is far too high.
Alex Anastasio voted for Donald Trump for president twice, attended Trump rallies, organized events for him and placed signs in front of her home in Pennsylvania. And she was deeply hopeful in the early days following the 2020 election that once all of the votes were counted, he would serve a second term -- so hopeful, indeed, that she was initially involved in a voter recount effort in support of that.
Watch out for China. This nuclearized, troop-laden, threatening, ultra-aggressive military monster has just come up with another warning of evil intent. It is negotiating with Cuba about a joint military training and enhanced intelligence center 100 miles from Florida. The center would no doubt host vast numbers of China’s 2 million-plus active troops as combat readiness grows and U.S. military secrets become a reading pleasure.
During the failed August 1991 putsch in Russia, the good guys were reformers Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. The bad guys were an incompetent claque of the military and KGB within the Politburo, and the rebellion fizzled when Yeltsin climbed on that tank in Moscow. The Kremlin’s nukes were kept secure, and the world caught its breath. The once all-powerful Soviet Union then peacefully flickered out of existence.
Is the Supreme Court ready for reform yet?
🎧 The hosts discuss why such policies can hurt cities and often cause a lack of affordable housing.
My thoughts go out to their loved ones. Sincerely. But how sad should we feel about their deaths?
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie once was a Republican star. His Jersey tough talk and handling of Superstorm Sandy helped him coast to reelection in a blue state.
It should come as no surprise that water is constantly on the minds of farmers and ranchers in Nebraska. For those who have ever had a conversation with a producer, how wet or dry it has been is a likely topic of conversation.
Like many people, I was glued to the news for much of Saturday, watching what seemed, at least for a moment, to be the first stages of a coup d'etat -- and it still might be. The only thing we know for certain is that if this is the beginning of the end of Vladimir Putin's rule, that story won't begin with the mutinous mercenary warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin leading an armored column of troops, guns a-blazing, into Moscow.
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A rattled Vladimir Putin’s political end is approaching. All that really matters now is whether it comes sooner or later.
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” So said Abraham Lincoln in his “House Divided” speech, given 165 years ago.
The Justice Department must be more transparent about investigation
The first question asked when a baby is born is their gender. That question is always binary — a boy or a girl.
What do 9-year-olds need to know about sexual activity or gender fluidity? For most parents, the answer is, “Whatever I choose to tell them at home.”
Many have tried not buying items made in China, but it is a near impossibility. Everything from prescription drugs to you name it seems to originate in a country whose regime is proving to be America’s greatest adversary and growing enemy.
When I came to work at the Chicago Tribune as a newly graduated journalism major, I had something that sounded like a plan. I’ll spend two or three years here and, if things don’t work out, I’ll move on.
Employees unhappy over orders to return to the office are evidently tearing their garments with grief. But they may need the garments to keep their current employment, and we're not talking about pajamas.