Opinion Columns
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It had to endOct 16, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich: Too much suffering on both sides. Too much division. Too much danger for Israel to be as isolated and stigmatized as it has become. Too big a rift between American Jews and the homeland we love.
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Zohran, ‘Tish’ and the new resistanceOct 16, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Byron York: This week saw the debut of a new alliance in the ongoing resistance to President Donald Trump
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A lesson about lessons and getting outside our comfort zonesOct 16, 2025 4:00 am - Columnist Jim Slusher: I have written in the past about the many unexpected things we can learn about subjects other than what a news story is actually about. Today, I write about how unexpected lessons can form the central theme of news events themselves, and the lesson we all can take when that happens.
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Nobel Peace Prize honors personal courageOct 16, 2025 4:00 am - On Oct. 10, the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 was awarded to Venezuela reform leader Maria Corina Machado. She is truly deserving of the honor and personifies courage, posit...
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Paying off Trump pays off big timeOct 15, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Keith Raffel: Warren Buffett made billions spotting undervalued assets. Today, many billionaires have decided the cheapest buy on the market is influence over the Trump administration.
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It’s time to deliver real transit reform for IllinoisOct 14, 2025 11:25 am - Guest columnist Rep. Mary Beth Canty: As a member of the Illinois General Assembly representing the Northwest suburbs, I am urging my colleagues to act for public transportation in the upcoming fall veto session.
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The new editor-in-chief of CBS News is not like the othersOct 14, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders: The knives are out for CBS News' new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss. Because she succeeded.
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With Americans increasingly pessimistic, leaders must show greater understandingOct 14, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Jessica A. Johnson: About a week after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a survey conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research was released, offering insights about the direction in which our country is headed. After the troubling political violence we have witnessed recently, it is not shocking that a majority of those surveyed believe we are in a dire situation.
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Preparing to protest the rebuilding of America from democracy to autocracyOct 13, 2025 4:00 am - After less than nine months in his second term in office, Americans are now finding what President Trump’s “Make America Great Again” and Project 2025 are all about — reb...
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Gay kids and garbageOct 12, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Marc Munroe Dion: The Supreme Court of the United States of America is very interested in gay “conversion therapy,” because, in a country where people are hefting 48-gallon trash cans half full of water, the government is taking yet another dive into the underpants of the nation.