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Roger DuClos is seen with his wife, Linda, from left, and their daughters Jennifer DuClos Strombom and Wendy DuClos Davids on Roger's 79th birthday. (Wendy DuClos Davids)

Heidi Stevens: Memories of a dad who wasn’t mine, but shaped my world, as his family grieves his death

April 18, 2025 at 8:18 a.m.

Roger DuClos was my friend’s dad and my dad’s friend; loving, safe grown-ups shape a kid’s world in such profound, permanent ways, writes Heidi Stevens.

Sen. Cory Booker shattered a record for the longest speech in Senate history with a fiery protest against President Donald Trump's "unconstitutional" actions, beginning late on March 31, 2025, and going just over 25 hours. (Roberto Schmidt/Getty-AFP)

Heidi Stevens: For those of us hungry for hope, Sen. Cory Booker’s record-breaking speech offered a glimpse

April 3, 2025 at 9:53 a.m.

Segregationist Strom Thurmond's senate-speech record was broken by Booker, a man whose rights he fought to deny.

FBI Director Kash Patel, from left, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe appear at a Senate Committee on Intelligence Hearing on March 25, 2025, in Washington, D.C. The hearing to examine worldwide threats came a day after Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief for The Atlantic said he was sent information about plans for a forthcoming attack on Yemen on the Signal messaging app. (Andrew Harnik/Getty)

Heidi Stevens: If your rally cry is that all lives matter, show us — with your actions and your policies

March 28, 2025 at 7:38 a.m.

The Trump administration's policies and actions do not demonstrate that the party values the lives of all Americans, writes Heidi Stevens.

Former Chicago Bulls player Dennis Rodman addresses the crowd on North Korea during the "Slam Dunk Diplomacy with Dennis Rodman" panel at the 2018 Politicon in Los Angeles, California on Oct. 20, 2018. (Mark Ralston/Getty-AFP)

Heidi Stevens: What a psychology professor’s grandmother — and Dennis Rodman — can teach us about regulating our emotions

March 26, 2025 at 2:40 p.m.

Psychology professor Ethan Kross has a powerful reframing of what so many of us may view as a weakness, writes Heidi Stevens.

Thousands protest the Donald Trump administration's federal funding cuts during the Stand-Up for Science rally in Washington, D.C., on March 7, 2025. (Dominic Gwinn/Getty-AFP)

Heidi Stevens: Criticizing the White House is not hating America. Quite the opposite, in fact

March 14, 2025 at 9:11 a.m.

America has done so much good, and it has also done tremendous harm. Acknowledging both isn’t an affront. It’s accurate.

Books at the newly refurbished library in Belmont-Cragin Elementary School, which a group of volunteers filled with books as part of a Selfless for Scott event in honor of Scott Boorstein, who died by suicide. (Nina Boorstein)

Heidi Stevens: Every year, in honor of her son, she nudges the world toward kindness. This year, she built a library

March 7, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

Scott Boorstein wanted to change the world. This year, in his honor, his loved ones set up a library at Belmont-Cragin Elementary.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt looks on as President Donald Trump speaks to the press next to hats reading "Trump was right about everything." (Jim Watson/Getty)

Heidi Stevens: Access is not a trophy the White House can hand out to its favorite reporters

February 28, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

You don’t have to be a journalist to demand answers from people in charge. But you do have to demand answers from people in charge to be a journalist.

Proponents of affirmative action hold signs during a protest at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on July 1, 2023. (Joseph Prezioso/Getty-AFP)

Heidi Stevens: Banning DEI and race-based programs in schools chips away at the very mission of education

February 21, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

To be a sharper, deeper, more careful, more creative, more flexible thinker requires diversity — inside classrooms and all across campuses.

Piles of old snapshots on Kevin Mayer's desk show the couple and their five children: Kevin, Ted, Mary, Jan and Christina. (Mayer family)

Heidi Stevens: ‘What a ride! I love you.’ They were married for 72 years and died a day apart, holding hands until the end

February 14, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

Marie and Kevin Mayer's five children found a drawer full of love letters — mostly from their dad to their mom.

Tommy Tuberville questions U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth during his Senate Armed Services confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on Jan. 14, 2025, in Washington, D.C.. (Andrew Harnik/Getty)

Heidi Stevens: Even amid this cloud of cruelty, Sen. Tuberville’s comments about beating kids with ADHD stand out

February 7, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

Tuberville lamented what he says is an overreliance on medication to treat ADHD. He lost credibility when he mentioned whipping a child.

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