Heidi Stevens: What we take away from our kids ā and ourselves ā when we turn into the dress police at prom
Inevitably there is a well-intentioned grown-up (or five) looking past the joy and affection and...
Columnists
Elizabeth Shackelford: An alarming number of people are suffering displacement across the world
As of mid-2023, 110 million people were forcibly displaced globally. Mass migration can carry destabilization...
Clarence Page: This era’s protesters could stand to ask a few more questions
This era's encampments carry echoes of the "teach-ins" on campuses during the Vietnam War era.
Daniel DePetris: Vladimir Putin has much to celebrate. But not the Russian people.
Vladimir Putin is digging a big hole for the country he claims to love so...
Laura Washington: The only thing I hate more than Chicago winter? Spring.
I am a child of summer.Ā That means that I get to enjoy about 2 Ā½...
Clarence Page: Marjorie Taylor Greene doesnāt run the government after all
Those of us who believe that Congress should find common ground could derive hope in...
Heidi Stevens: As we send our babies to college, do we do enough to celebrate the village that raised them?
Sending my first-born child to college has me feeling contemplative and raw and, above all...
David Greising: Bears pitch for a lakefront stadium fizzled. Here’s how they can move forward.
In order to take the Bears' lakefront stadium proposal even a first step toward "yes,"...
Clarence Page: DEI on campus and in corporations is due for a change
If the value of a DEI program does not help either the work environment or...
Daniel DePetris: The implications of an Israeli assault on Rafah are horrible
Sending Israeli forces into Rafah has the potential to do a great deal of harm...