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Wally Funk, right, describes their flight experience as Mark Bezos, left, and Jeff Bezos, left, center, founder of Amazon and space tourism company Blue Origin, applaud from the spaceport near Van Horn, Texas, on July 20, 2021.

Op-ed: Billionaires in space. Why we need them.

August 5, 2021 at 5:02 p.m.

The last footprints left on the moon were imprinted there by Apollo astronaut and Chicago native Eugene Cernan in 1972. In all, only 12 men walked the dusty lunar surface...

Children gather beside the crater where the home of Ramez al-Masri was destroyed by an air strike prior to a cease-fire reached after an 11-day war between Gaza's Hamas rulers and Israel on May 23, 2021, in Beit Hanoun, the northern Gaza Strip.

Op-ed: An Israel-Hamas cease-fire, for now, but can there ever be Mideast peace?

May 24, 2021 at 9:29 p.m.

Twenty-five years ago, I interviewed a Palestinian family in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and returned for weeks to meet them amid the cinder block homes in...

Englewood resident Fannie Peeples gets a Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine from Friend Health nurse Syreetta Stinson at the Peace House of I Grow Chicago, March 26, 2021. I Grow Chicago teamed with Friend Health to provide 150 vaccines, coffee and doughnuts at the event.

Op-ed: We’re fully vaccinated! But now what? Let’s take it slowly, for everyone’s health

March 20, 2021 at 7:25 p.m.

We just got the deuce — Moderna times two — and life feels like it has changed amazingly for the better. We are grateful, relieved and hopeful, but we are...

President Joe Biden speaks at the South Court Auditorium at Eisenhower Executive Building in Washington on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021.

Op-ed: How Biden can fix America’s tarnished image

February 11, 2021 at 2:44 p.m.

In the shadow of his predecessor's impeachment trial, President Joe Biden is taking up the challenge of restoring America's tarnished image in the world by making this case: The nation...

Trump supporters participate in a rally Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

Op-ed: Trump incited a seditious mob. How should he be held accountable?

January 7, 2021 at 5:06 p.m.

After President Donald Trump incited a seditious mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol, causing death and desecration in the People's House and deep damage to American democracy, Democrats and even...

President Donald Trump meets with governors at the White House in Washington on May 13, 2020.

Op-ed: What would Honest Abe make of Dishonest Donald?

December 15, 2020 at 4:06 p.m.

With the Electoral College vote this week certifying Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election, the nation now has official confirmation that Biden and Kamala Harris won and will...

Joe Biden's projected presidential election victory is seen on the front pages of British newspapers on Nov. 8, 2020, in London.

Commentary: Trump’s postelection drama keeps world on edge

November 13, 2020 at 3:41 p.m.

When news networks called the presidential election for former Vice President Joe Biden on Nov. 7, many Americans started receiving texts, emails and social media posts from relieved colleagues across...

A magical journey through hobbitland

December 25, 2018 at 9:41 a.m.

There are hobbits about in the land, once again. Big, noisy, clumsy folks like you and me can't usually see them, but they're there, I assure you. Some of you...

Killing in the name of God

January 30, 2019 at 9:23 a.m.

No one in Ismail Maasawabi's family knew his secret. The son of an aluminum and glass-shop worker, Maasawabi loved his family, had a lively sense of humor and studied hard...

DAN MERIDOR

August 20, 2021 at 5:47 p.m.

Last week, as Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat met in Israel for the first time since July's peace talks at Camp David, and violence exploded...

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