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Charlie Kirk has been called many things, including an influencer, especially of young people.

A better label might be “converter.” The power to speak truth in a way that changes a political mindset is better than ...Read more

The Trump administration’s crackdown on pharmaceutical ads is a welcome step toward lessening Big Pharma’s influence over conversations between patients and their doctors.

Americans are among the few people in the ...Read more

Even as its forces prepare to launch a full-scale offensive into Gaza City, several long-standing supporters of Israel — including Australia, Canada, France and the UK — are threatening to recognize a Palestinian state...Read more

Like most big American cities, Chicago has a homelessness problem. It is writ large in our public parks.

Take the situation in the 39th Ward, where Ald. Samantha Nugent has grown so frustrated with burgeoning tent cities ...Read more

In democracies around the world, young people have started new political parties whenever the establishment has sidelined their views or excluded them from policymaking. These parties have sometimes reinvigorated political...Read more

U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune is very wrong to weaken the Senate’s historic filibuster procedure — which allows legislation and nominations to be slowed or blocked in the absence of 60 votes. Thune, pushed by ...Read more

There are plenty of good reasons to ban the TV advertising of prescription drugs, but coming from the anti-science, anti-medicine Trump administration and the dangerous anti-vaccine crackpot Health and Human Services ...Read more

Ask people how much they expect to change over the next 10 years, and most will say “not much.” Ask them how much they’ve changed in the past decade, and the answer flips. Regardless of age, the past always feels ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Pigs are flying and Satan has on a puffer jacket. I know these things because the impossible is happening — I am writing about why Marjorie Taylor Greene, Nancy Mace and Lauren Boebert are right. ...Read more

This week marks the third anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody — an event that ignited one of the most powerful protest movements in Iran since 1979. “ Woman, Life, Freedom” became not just a slogan...Read more

Some irresponsible right-wing influencer was wandering past the home of one of our public officials recently, just taking a little walk, in his parlance, and making a video for X and doubtless also for other socials. He ...Read more

In business, there’s a brutal rule: differentiate or die. If your product looks just like the competition’s, you don’t survive. Politics works the same way. And right now, America’s two major political parties are ...Read more

When Cardinal Robert Prevost of south suburban Dolton became Pope Leo XIV in May, excited Chicagoans could hardly believe the first American pope in church history was homegrown — and a White Sox fan at that.

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President Donald Trump said he would have lowered American flags to half-staff in the aftermath of state Rep. Melissa Hortman’s assassination if Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz had asked him to.

Trump, who days after the ...Read more

Local authorities in Texas have arrested a Cuban immigrant in the case of a gruesome murder of a motel employee, the latest high-profile criminal case the Trump administration is using to double down on its mass ...Read more

President Donald Trump promised Sunday night that a Cuban immigrant accused of beheading his manager at a Dallas motel with a machete last week “will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

In a post on Truth...Read more

U.S. Sen. John Fetterman this weekend urged Democrats to change their tune when it comes to attacking President Donald Trump as an autocrat, saying that posture won't help them win in the handful of battleground states, ...Read more

Democratic former Rep. Yadira Caraveo on Friday dropped her comeback bid in a battleground district in Colorado, citing a bias against mental illness as the reason.

“This was not a decision I made lightly,” Caraveo, ...Read more

Cellphones are ubiquitous these days, and just about everything that happens is recorded on video, usually from several angles. But I don’t think I want to see the graphic videos available on social media that show ...Read more