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Actor Ken Campbell is recovering from cancer surgery after being diagnosed in October with squamous cell carcinoma.

Column: ‘Ask for help. Just ask for help.’ How a community rallied around the ‘Home Alone’ Santa during his illness

June 7, 2024 at 11:50 a.m.

Of all the Santas who've entered hearts and homes — down a chimney or through a TV screen — Ken Campbell has entered more than most. In 1990, Campbell played...

Children deserve joy — at the holidays, and not at the holidays. And parents deserve the basic right to try to provide it, writes Heidi Stevens.

Heidi Stevens: Toy drive helps incarcerated moms give kids holiday gifts. ‘It’s not an act of charity; it’s an act of solidarity.’

June 7, 2024 at 11:50 a.m.

It started with a hopeful phone call. The holidays were approaching and Sharon Fitzer, family coordinator at Logan Correctional Center, a women's prison in central Illinois, was hearing from moms...

15 The Joy of Running on an Empty Lakefront

July 2, 2026 at 12:16 p.m.

Chicago in the winter is a reminder that love, for all its heart-pounding, soul-stirring, head-spinning magic, also requires some suffering. Anyone can relish the lakefront path in the summer. The...

Evelyn Figueroa

July 2, 2026 at 12:15 p.m.

The Migrant Welcome Wagon

Christina Whitehouse

July 2, 2026 at 12:17 p.m.

The Bike Lane Revolutionary

Failure can be a road map to a better, truer place than anywhere perfection would have taken us, writes Heidi Stevens.

Column: In an age of perfection, why failure may be the best thing that can happen to our kids

June 7, 2024 at 11:50 a.m.

Michelle Icard has written a kind and important book about failing. "For kids to learn from their failures, they must trust adults enough to stop hiding them from us," Icard...

They don't tell you that you'll get glimpses of who they'll be at 18, all the way back when they're 1, 4, 7, 12, writes Heidi Stevens. (Dreamstime/TNS)

Column: What they don’t tell you about your baby turning 18. (And why I’m glad they don’t.)

June 7, 2024 at 11:50 a.m.

When my daughter was a toddler, I used to hold her by her arms and swing her in circles in our living room, around and around, until both of us...

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., speaks in the Hart Senate Office Building on July 20, 2023, in Washington, D.C. Kennedy recently read sexually explicit passages aloud during a senate book-ban hearing on Sept. 12.

Column: Stop pretending book bans are all about sex. If we ban books, ‘we will be banning knowledge, culture, empathy,’ says Illinois secretary of state.

June 7, 2024 at 11:50 a.m.

I suppose it was meant to be a gotcha moment — Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., reading sexually explicit passages aloud to a clearly hot-and-bothered Senate Judiciary Committee. Illinois Secretary of...

A message reading Carolina Strong is displayed on a screen after a vigil for slain professor Zijie Yan at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Aug. 30, 2023.

Column: In the wake of yet another school shooting, I fear young people will give up on our willingness to protect them

June 7, 2024 at 11:50 a.m.

The Aug. 30 edition of the Daily Tar Heel, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's student newspaper, was supposed to be devoted to the upcoming football season. The first...

Bascom Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Madison, Wisconsin.

Column: Parents dropping your kids at college: Congratulations! And, truly, how are you surviving?

June 7, 2024 at 11:50 a.m.

Dropping your child at college looks to me like winning the parent lottery. Your child is alive (alive!) at 18 and about to access a whole new world of thought...

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