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President Joe Biden holds up a personalized Golden State Warriors jersey as Vice President Kamala Harris applauds on Jan. 17, 2023, in Washington during a visit from the 2022 NBA champions.

Clarence Page: President Biden’s document drama: Stick to the facts, Joe

January 17, 2023 at 6:07 p.m.

Well, that was fun while it lasted. President Joe Biden benefited mightily from the 15-ballot display of disarray by House Republicans to settle the usually routine matter of electing one...

President Joe Biden, center, talks with U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers as he visits the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, on Jan. 8, 2023.

Clarence Page: Has Biden bungled the border crisis? He’s not alone.

January 13, 2023 at 6:02 p.m.

Joe Biden's White House won't call it a crisis, but it's not exactly nothing either. Just ask Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and New York's mayor, Eric Adams. After days of...

U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries speaks after U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy was elected House speaker at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 7, 2023, in Washington.

Clarence Page: Is Hakeem Jeffries the next Barack Obama? Don’t rush him

January 10, 2023 at 5:32 p.m.

No, New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries does not want to be the next Barack Obama, although sometimes it seems as if everyone is asking. A lot of people were asking...

Members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, from left, Rep. Dan Bishop, D-N.C., Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, and Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., meet with reporters in Statuary Hall to talk about their opposition to voting for Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., to be speaker of the House at the Capitol in Washington Jan. 6, 2023.

Clarence Page: Today’s Republicans need to get out of their own way

January 6, 2023 at 5:37 p.m.

As the House moved past a dozen ballots in failed attempts to elect California Republican Kevin McCarthy to be House speaker, a catchy refrain from the musical "Hamilton" grew louder...

People arrive for work at the rehabbed Old Post Office in Chicago in March 2022. Office life as we used to know it has been thoroughly shaken up.

Clarence Page: Back to ‘abnormal’? Chicago can come back after the pandemic is gone.

January 3, 2023 at 5:30 p.m.

Pardon me if I glance at the top of this column just to remember what day it is. Besides old age, chalk it up to the past two years of...

Venezuelan immigrant Stephanie holds her daughter Hannie, 10 months, after spending the night camped along the U.S.-Mexico border fence on Dec. 22, 2022, in El Paso, Texas. They traveled to the U.S. border from Chile, where Hannie, a Chilean citizen, was born.

Clarence Page: What’s the Supreme Court’s Title 42 case about? Hint: It’s not the pandemic.

March 11, 2024 at 1:11 p.m.

Amid the constant partisan fussing, feuding and fighting in Washington these days, I was gratified — however briefly — by a moment of bipartisan agreement at the Supreme Court. The...

The dome of the U.S. Capitol is visible as a people participate in a live Nativity scene on Dec. 7, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Clarence Page: What if Mary and Joseph came to today’s Washington?

December 27, 2022 at 5:44 p.m.

On the second day of Christmas, my true love said to me, "You ought to write about the family that took in the South Korean tourists who were stranded near...

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., speaks alongside House Republican leaders at the U.S Capitol Building on Dec. 14, 2022, in Washington.

Clarence Page: Republicans release their Jan. 6 report. Which riot did they see?

December 23, 2022 at 5:41 p.m.

As the mostly Democratic House committee investigating the Jan. 6. 2021, attack on the Capitol blamed "one man," former President Donald Trump, as its central cause, House Republicans found someone...

Fans take photos with Elon Musk during the World Cup final match between Argentina and France on Dec. 18, 2022, in Lusail City, Qatar. Musk has made massive staff cuts at Twitter.

Clarence Page: Elon Musk finds ‘free speech’ to be more than a pastime

December 21, 2022 at 1:31 p.m.

I hate to say "I told you so" unless, of course, I turn out to be right. When Elon Musk called himself a "free speech absolutist" in announcing his intent...

Kanye West, also known as Ye, in New York on Sept. 12, 2022. Elon Musk, Twitter's chief executive, said on Dec. 1, 2022, that West would be suspended from Twitter after the rapper and fashion designer tweeted an image of a swastika inside the Star of David.

Clarence Page: Can Kanye West, aka Ye, save himself from his enablers — including the GOP?

December 2, 2022 at 6:32 p.m.

I thought I had stepped into an alternative universe. Who would have guessed that, in a dialogue between Kanye West and Alex Jones, Jones would come across as the voice...

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