Steve Chapman – Page 33

The coal-fired NRG Waukegan Generating Station in Waukegan, on Sept. 28, 2018. A carbon tax would discourage coal use.

Column: Don’t ban fracking. America might finally be ready for a better way to fight climate change.

November 6, 2019 at 2:51 p.m.

The Trump administration's formal notification that it will abandon the Paris climate agreement should be treated as a huge in-kind contribution to the Democratic Party. It's an emphatic message to...

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., at a campaign event Oct. 24, 2019, in Hanover, New Hampshire.

Column: Democrats and Republicans don’t disagree on everything: Both parties want to spend like there’s no tomorrow

November 1, 2019 at 4:53 p.m.

In 2020, Democrats and Republicans will highlight their differences on a long list of issues, from impeachment to climate change to health care. But they happen to be in perfect...

President Donald Trump leads a group arriving at Columbia Metropolitan Airport in Columbia, South Carolina, on Oct. 25, 2019. Shown behind Trump are HUD Secretary Ben Carson and Sen. Lindsey Graham.

Column: Trump makes life miserable for Republicans in Congress, and a second term would be even worse

October 30, 2019 at 3:56 p.m.

Andrew Yang is running for the Democratic nomination for president, but he may have a unique understanding of what it's like to be a Republican member of Congress right now....

Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump during the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, in June.

Column: Trump can’t seem to resist the urge to do favors for Putin and Russia

October 25, 2019 at 5:47 p.m.

Under fire from both Democrats and Republicans in Congress, Donald Trump bitterly abandoned his plan to hold the next summit of the Group of Seven industrialized nations at one of...

Democratic presidential hopefuls Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, left, and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren greet each other onstage next to former Vice President Joe Biden ahead of a debate Oct. 15, 2019, in Westerville, Ohio. Sanders and Warren have been touting "Medicare for All" on the campaign trail.

Column: Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders deny the costly deceptions of ‘Medicare for All’

October 23, 2019 at 4:00 p.m.

Elizabeth Warren took a pounding in the recent Democratic debate for her lack of candor on "Medicare for All." Asked whether it would require the middle class to pay more...

LGBT supporters rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Oct. 8. The court was hearing arguments in its first cases on LGBT rights since the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy.

Column: If the Supreme Court doesn’t protect gays from discrimination, Congress should

October 18, 2019 at 2:32 p.m.

For 55 years, federal law has banned employment discrimination on the basis of sex. If you're a woman, you can't be denied a job because an employer thinks it's not...

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Italian President Sergio Mattarella in the Oval Office of the White House on Oct. 16, 2019, in Washington.

Column: Trump to Congress: Impeach me!

October 17, 2019 at 6:13 p.m.

Donald Trump must be tired of waiting for the House to impeach him. Why else would he be doing everything he can think of to hasten the process? He and...

Column: Attorney General William Barr to nonbelievers: Go to hell

October 16, 2019 at 4:30 p.m.

Attorney General William Barr believes fervently in the free exercise of religion — for religious believers, or at least for those who fall within the "Judeo-Christian" category. But for anyone...

A woman walks past the offices of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine on Oct. 1, 2019, in Kyiv.

Column: The Republican betrayal of Ukraine

October 2, 2019 at 6:03 p.m.

Not so long ago, congressional Republicans strenuously opposed the Russian conquest of Crimea, saw an urgent need to help Ukraine fight back and castigated the president of the United States...

President Donald Trump arrives to address the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 24, 2019.

Column: Donald Trump drags our standards deeper into the mud

September 24, 2019 at 4:53 p.m.

"Never wrestle with a pig," says the old maxim. "You both get dirty, and the pig likes it." That's the risk facing Democrats who hope to impeach and remove the...

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