Steve Chapman – Page 35

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and President Donald Trump at the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, on June 28, 2019.

Column: Trump’s mysterious devotion to Putin endures

August 28, 2019 at 3:41 p.m.

The disagreements, surprises and compromises that arose during the G-7 summit in Paris all have implications for the future of the world's biggest industrialized democracies. But they distract from a...

Jerome Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve System, left, and Bank of England Governor Mark Carney, right, pause in front of Mt. Moran after Powell's speech at an economic policy symposium on Aug. 23, 2019, in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Column: Fed Chairman Jerome Powell is not Trump’s worst enemy. Trump is.

August 23, 2019 at 4:28 p.m.

Jerome Powell is the bane of Donald Trump's existence. Lately, it seems Trump would rather bash the Federal Reserve chairman than eat his favorite fast food. Every other tweet from...

Team Europe's Roger Federer gets airborne on a serve during a singles match against Team World's John Isner during the Laver Cup tennis tournament at the United Center in Chicago on Sept. 23, 2018.

Column: Bored to death with baseball? Tennis has all the real action.

August 21, 2019 at 5:27 p.m.

I've been a baseball fan since before I could spell "bat." I test my wife's patience with St. Louis Cardinals news, carry fond memories of years coaching kids and never...

Democrat Beto O'Rourke's near-upset in the 2016 U.S. Senate race raises the prospect that Texas Democrats may soon be winning races that once were hopeless.

Column: Why Republicans should ditch the Electoral College

August 14, 2019 at 5:17 p.m.

Beto O'Rourke didn't win a Senate seat in 2018, and he isn't likely to win the presidency in 2020. But he could gain a footnote in the history books as...

President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, on June 29, 2019.

Column: Trump’s trade war with China is a failure

August 9, 2019 at 5:05 p.m.

In the 1973 film, "The Sting," the character played by Robert Redford sizes up an enemy and says, "He's not as tough as he thinks." Replies his friend, played by...

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump speak to first responders at the El Paso Regional Communications Center after meeting with people affected by the mass shooting in the city last weekend, on Aug. 7, 2019, in El Paso, Texas.

Column: Trump is toxic. Americans are not.

August 7, 2019 at 6:37 p.m.

Donald Trump is a toxin in the American political bloodstream, and the resulting symptoms are not only ugly and unpleasant but also dangerous. Among the signs are expressions of racial...

A U.S. Army team carries the remains of Army Spc. Michael Isaiah Nance at Dover Air Force Base on July 31, 2019. The Chicago soldier was killed in combat in Afghanistan.

Column: Democrats turn away from endless war

August 2, 2019 at 6:53 p.m.

For most of the past 30 years, the default American approach to global affairs has been aggressive, ambitious and wrong. George W. Bush and Dick Cheney get the blame for...

Attorney General William Barr has announced that the federal government will resume executions in December after a lapse of 16 years.

Column: The expensive folly of federal executions

July 31, 2019 at 3:51 p.m.

In recent decades, the United States has gone through a vast experiment in crime and punishment to answer the question: "What would happen if you began phasing out the death...

Former Vice President Joe Biden, a Democratic presidential candidate, speaks at the Graduate Center at City University of New York on July 11, 2019.

Column: If Joe Biden was wrong on crime, he had a lot of black company

July 26, 2019 at 2:25 p.m.

Cory Booker, Kamala Harris and other Democratic presidential candidates believe that Joe Biden was wrong in helping to craft and pass the 1994 crime bill, which they blame for the...

Former special counsel Robert Mueller arrives to testify before House committee members on July 24, 2019, in Washington.

Column: Mueller didn’t save us, and no one may

July 25, 2019 at 9:48 a.m.

Watching the House hearings with Robert Mueller was like watching extra innings in a tedious, sluggish midseason baseball game. Each inning presents the possibility of a breakthrough that could end...

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