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Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor visits the baiduhai Editorial Board in 2013.

Column: With presidential election looming, Supreme Court should take a lesson from Bush v. Gore and pass on questions over Trump’s taxes

November 18, 2019 at 12:00 a.m.

Nearly two decades ago, George W. Bush asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in a presidential election. Last week, Donald Trump implored the high court to do it again....

California U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes, from left, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, confers with with GOP counsel Stephen Castor and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, during the impeachment hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Nov. 13, 2019.

Column: Republicans used the first impeachment hearing to lay out ‘alternative facts.’ Is it enough to win support?

November 13, 2019 at 7:48 p.m.

If there is one thing that is clear from Wednesday's impeachment hearing, it is that congressional Republicans think Americans thrive on low information. They are unable to make a distinction...

The Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism is pictured on Nov. 12, 2019, in Evanston, Ill.

Column: The apologetic editorial in Northwestern’s student newspaper reveals an issue most black journalists face

November 12, 2019 at 7:50 p.m.

The editor of The Daily Northwestern student newspaper made a rookie mistake. I think he knows that now. The fact that Troy Closson apologized in an editorial for reporters doing...

President Donald Trump waves to supporters after speaking at a "Black Voices for Trump" rally on Nov. 8, 2019, in Atlanta.

Column: Donald Trump might be delusional about lots of things, but it’s crazy to think blacks will vote for him

November 11, 2019 at 12:00 a.m.

Donald Trump has embarked on a halfhearted campaign to recruit African American support in 2020. Even a president who shuns reality knows it's ridiculous for Republicans to spend a lot...

Lake County State's Attorney Michael Nerheim at the Bilandic Building in Chicago on Sept. 23, 2019.

Column: A year in prison isn’t the second chance Diamond Davis was looking for, but she still has a chance to turn her life around.

November 7, 2019 at 4:41 p.m.

Sometimes the legal system works like it is supposed to. Two teenagers who were unjustly charged with murder in the death of a 14-year-old companion during a botched car theft...

Multiple employees were fired from this Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant in Naperville.

Column: Why is everyone so shocked by the racial incident at Buffalo Wild Wings? This sort of thing happens every day.

November 5, 2019 at 4:05 p.m.

We don't know much about that white guy in the red T-shirt, except that he doesn't like sitting next to black people when he is eating his chicken wings. He...

Former first lady Michelle Obama, with her brother, Craig Robinson, talks during the opening session of the 2019 Obama Foundation Summit at the Kaplan Institute at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago on Tuesday, Oct. 29.

Column: Yes, Michelle Obama was talking directly to white people about race. But there was something in her message for everyone.

November 4, 2019 at 12:00 a.m.

There is no question that former first lady Michelle Obama was talking directly to white people last week at the Obama Foundation Summit when she addressed the history of white...

Security measures are put into place at Trump Tower in advance of President Donald Trump arriving to the building for a fundraiser on Oct. 28, 2019.

Column: Chicago threw a great protest rally for Donald Trump. Unfortunately, he didn’t get to see it.

October 29, 2019 at 10:48 a.m.

The awful thing about protest rallies aimed at sitting presidents is that the presidents never get to see them. Presidents swing into town, get whisked off to the events they...

Protesters speak out during a Donald Trump campaign rally March 11, 2016, inside the UIC Pavilion.

Column: Inviting Donald Trump to address top cops gathering in Chicago is a slap in the face to our city — an opportunity Trump has been waiting for

October 29, 2019 at 10:08 a.m.

There is something conspicuously menacing about police chiefs from around the world inviting Donald Trump to join them in Chicago. This, after all, is the home of Laquan McDonald, Harith...

A bronze statue called "Raise Up," part of the display at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, a memorial to honor thousands of people killed in racist lynchings, is shown on April 23, 2018, in Montgomery, Alabama. Facing an impeachment inquiry that he and supporters claim is illegal, President Donald Trump tweeted Oct. 22, 2019, that the process is a lynching. Some Republicans agree, but the relatives of actual lynching victims don't.

Column: Politicians are using the term lynching when they get into trouble, suggesting racially motivated killings are a thing of the past. They aren’t.

October 24, 2019 at 5:06 p.m.

Politicians like to throw out the word lynching when they or someone they support is in hot water. The problem is that it makes it seem as though racially motivated...

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