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Republican gubernatorial nominee Darren Bailey celebrates with supporters on primary night on June 28, 2022, at Thelma Keller Convention Center in Effingham, Illinois.

Clarence Page: Why almost all the GOP candidates seem to sound like Tucker Carlson

July 26, 2022 at 6:17 p.m.

At a time that should be a moment of glory for Republicans, much of the Grand Old Party is campaigning like a party of trolls. "Trolling" in this social media...

Sen. Josh Hawley, right, escaping the rioters, is shown on July 21, 2022, at the eighth public hearing of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Clarence Page: Jan. 6 hearings make great TV, but will it matter?

July 22, 2022 at 4:32 p.m.

In the long-running talkfest known as the Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6, 2021, Attack on U.S. Capitol, we haven't seen too many made-for-TV moments. We don't, for example,...

An undated portrait of Emmett Louis Till, a Black 14-year-old Chicago boy, whose weighted down body was found in the Tallahatchie River near Money, Mississippi, on Aug. 31, 1955.

Clarence Page: Emmett Till’s story, despite new revelations, still needs the whole truth

July 20, 2022 at 10:10 a.m.

Like a slowly unfolding detective story, the search for justice for Emmett Till keeps taking new and painful turns — and not always toward justice. The latest comes from an...

Video of testimony by Rudy Giuliani is played on July 12, 2022, during the seventh public hearing of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol assault.

Clarence Page: Willful blindness is no excuse for Trump’s coup attempt

July 15, 2022 at 1:20 p.m.

No matter how much congressional Republicans leaders may encourage us to look anywhere but at the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol assault, the hearings have only...

In this file photo taken on June 09, 2022, people pass by a booth of Google at the re:publica 2022 digital media convention in Berlin.

Clarence Page: Internet privacy is under siege along with abortion rights

July 12, 2022 at 5:44 p.m.

Having witnessed how much the world seemed to change after the Roe v. Wade decision legalized abortion nationwide, it has been stunning — although not too surprising — to see...

Mourners hold candles during a community vigil in memory of the victims of the Highland Park Independence Day parade mass shooting, at Am Shalom, July 7, 2022, in Glencoe.

Clarence Page: After the shootings, partisan media offer dubious comfort

July 8, 2022 at 5:05 p.m.

Remember Bill O'Reilly? He hosted the top-rated show on cable news until Fox News forced him out amid sexual harassment allegations — and settlements — in 2017. He occasionally invited...

A police officer picks up a water-logged American flag left behind after Monday's mass shooting on July 5, 2022, in Highland Park.

Clarence Page: It’s hard to not lose hope over mass shootings

July 6, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

I'm really getting tired of writing about mass shootings. I'm not alone in my weariness. Back in the final summer of Barack Obama's presidency, he sounded the same weary tune...

President Donald Trump near a portrait of George Washington in the East Room of the White House on April 18, 2019.

Clarence Page: What would George Washington say about Jan. 6? He tried to warn us.

July 1, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

As America's birthday approached during the House select committee's investigation of the Jan. 6 attack last year on the Capitol, I was reminded of George Washington's warning about political parties—...

Abortion rights activists during a protest in front of the Supreme Court building following the announcement of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling on June 25, 2022, in Washington. The court's decision in Dobbs overturns the landmark Roe v Wade case.

Clarence Page: Supreme Court abortion ruling shows Democrats what to rally around — and against

June 28, 2022 at 6:09 p.m.

After achieving their long-sought goal of overturning the constitutional right to abortion, could Republicans become victims of their own success? Former President Donald Trump reportedly thinks so, which I believe...

Mildred Loving and her husband Richard P. Loving are shown in Virginia on Jan. 26, 1965.

Clarence Page: Now that Roe is gone, what’s next? Mixed marriages?

June 24, 2022 at 4:49 p.m.

Now that the Supreme Court has overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide in 1973, could same-sex marriage be next? Or even interracial marriage? I'm not...

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