Articles filed under Politics
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Students, parents object to speaker at Prospect HighNov 29, 2022 12:00 am - Prospect High School billed motivational speaker and activist Calvin Terrell's appearance at an all-school assembly Tuesday as an event spreading a message of empathy, k...
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Tim Degnan, former state senator and Daley adviser, dies at 82Nov 28, 2022 12:00 am - Tim Degnan, a former state senator and longtime top adviser to former Mayor Richard M. Daley, died last week at his home in Oak Brook. He was 82. In a 1995 Sun-Times pro...
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Indicted Chicago Alderman Edward Burke won't run againNov 28, 2022 12:00 am - An extraordinary era in Chicago politics ended quietly on Monday - and not in the way the city council dean once predicted. Indicted Alderman Edward Burke chose not to s...
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Lightfoot files paperwork to run for reelectionNov 28, 2022 12:00 am - After turning in her nominating petitions Monday morning - a stack of signatures nearly half as tall as she is - Mayor Lori Lightfoot flexed a bit as she explained her d...
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Democrats kept the Senate this year, but 2024 may be harderNov 28, 2022 12:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Democrats celebrating a successful effort to keep control of the U.S. Senate this year will soon confront a 2024 campaign that could prove more challengi...
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Syndicated columnist Veronique de Rugy: Giving thanks for 'low-skilled' workersNov 27, 2022 12:00 am - On Thanksgiving we rightly give thanks. And let's be clear that, amid all the turmoil that consumes daily headlines, we Americans do indeed have a lot to be thankful for...
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Syndicated columnist Byron York: In quest to get Trump, secrecy strikes againNov 25, 2022 12:00 am - Think back five years to the frenzy of news reporting and commentary over what was called Trump-Russia "collusion" - the allegation that the 2016 Trump campaign conspire...
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Guest Columnist Arthur I. Cyr: Thanksgiving and Lincoln's legacyNov 25, 2022 12:00 am - Thanksgiving means actual, not contrived, inclusiveness. President Abraham Lincoln profoundly demonstrates this fundamental point. On Oct. 3, 1863, the White House issue...
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Twitter, others slip on removing hate speech, EU review saysNov 24, 2022 12:00 am - LONDON - Twitter took longer to review hateful content and removed less of it in 2022 compared with the previous year, according to European Union data released Thursday...
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Daily Herald columnist Jim Slusher: A Thanksgiving reminder that virtue also makes newsNov 24, 2022 12:00 am - Elon Musk. Nancy Pelosi. Jan. 6. Hunter Biden. Ticketmaster. Taylor Swift. Joe Biden. Ukraine. Russia. Justin Fields. Colorado Springs. Donald Trump. There's an endless ...