Articles filed under Politics
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Number of overdoses in Illinois drops for first time in five yearsOct 21, 2019 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Illinois is "showing progress" toward the state Department of Public Health's three-year goal of reducing opioid deaths by one-third by 2020, an official t...
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What you do on the Internet is worth a lot. Exactly how much, nobody knows.Oct 20, 2019 6:18 am - The Internet may be composed of zeros and ones, but U.S. officials are struggling to quantify the value of digital activities and integrate those numbers into public pol...
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Peterson: Idealism amid the competing interests of foreign policyOct 20, 2019 1:00 am - Samantha Power came to prominence when she authored the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "The Problem from hell: America and the Age of Genocide" in 2003, which examined how ...
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Dems offer grab-bag of tech crackdown ideas during debateOct 19, 2019 6:17 am - One of the sharper exchanges in Tuesday's Democratic primary debate centered on the crucial public policy question of what to do about President Donald Trump's Twitter a...
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Zakaria: The disaster of Trump's knowledge-free foreign policyOct 18, 2019 1:00 am - By FAREED ZAKARIA NEW YORK - Has there ever been a foreign policy move that has produced more crises more quickly? Regardless of whether the cease fire holds - the Turks...
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Parker: Trump's foreign whims show he's no 'stable genius'Oct 18, 2019 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - So let me get this straight: President Donald Trump ordered the removal of American troops from northern Syria, knowing that Turkey would invade, seize and ...
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York: Democrats increase impeachment secrecyOct 18, 2019 1:00 am - By Byron York Not long ago, House Republicans complained that Democrats imposed excessive secrecy on interviews conducted as part of the drive to impeach President Donal...
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Hamilton: We are enriched as a nation of immigrantsOct 17, 2019 1:00 am - By Lee H. Hamilton I was talking with a friend the other day about immigration. It's one of the most divisive issues of our time, and we, too, found ourselves divided. ...
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Cyber-crimes expert warns Google proposal could endanger our childrenOct 17, 2019 1:00 am - Google and other Big Tech companies are rushing headlong to establish a new protocol, called DNS over HTTPS ("DoH"), that internet safety experts fear could open the flo...
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Naperville chooses March primary for recreational marijuana referendumOct 16, 2019 5:23 am - Naperville voters can expect a referendum about whether they want the city to allow recreational marijuana sales within its borders on the March 17 primary ballot. City...