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President Donald Trump speaks during a “Make America Wealthy Again” trade announcement event in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 2, 2025, in Washington. Touting the event as “Liberation Day”, Trump announced additional tariffs targeting goods imported to the U.S. (Andrew Harnik/Getty)

Editorial: Trump’s foolish tariffs take the US economy back centuries

President Donald Trump has launched a global trade war, as he promised to do during the campaign.

Parking tickets placed on cars in Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood on Jan. 1, 2025. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)

Editorial: Pay your debts to the city, Chicagoans, and save a buck in the process

A person runs past the Gaza solidarity encampment on the University of Michigan campus on May 4, 2024, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. (Nic Antaya/Getty)

Kevin Waldman: Radical empathy and its dangerous consequences for America’s future

Cambodian women and children huddle close in fear of incoming fire from Khmer Rouge forces on Highway 5, just northwest of Phnom Penh on April 6, 1975. (AP)

Ray Cavanaugh: Scholars failed to tell the truth about the genocidal Khmer Rouge

Dozens of people gather in downtown Niles, Michigan, on March 20, 2025, to protest recent government cuts in the Department of Education. (Don Campbell/The Herald-Palladium)

Andrew V. Papcahristos: Why America can’t afford to silence its universities

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The Lincoln Yards development site in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood is shown on Feb. 13, 2024. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)

Editorial: Is Lincoln Yards becoming Chicago’s new Block 37?

A bank's seizure from developer Sterling Bay of half the 55 acres to be developed as Lincoln Yards should be a wake-up call.

Commentary

Containers sit at the Port of Rotterdam on April 3, 2025, in the Netherlands. The port is the largest seaport in Europe and a key transit point for trade with the U.S. (Pierre Crom/Getty)

Elizabeth Shackelford: President Donald Trump’s tariffs will cost us

We live in a world today very unlike that of the 19th century America that President Donald Trump glorifies.

Letters to the Editor

Students board a bus outside Jones College Prep after a threat was made against the school on March 5, 2025. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)

Letters: Investments in trauma-informed literacy should be a priority

Meeting a child’s basic needs and ensuring that they feel safe and calm are vital, yet commonly overlooked, conditions to learning.

Columnists

Sen. Cory Booker shattered a record for the longest speech in Senate history with a fiery protest against President Donald Trump's "unconstitutional" actions, beginning late on March 31, 2025, and still going more than 24 hours later. (Roberto Schmidt/Getty-AFP)

Heidi Stevens: For those of us hungry for hope, Sen. Cory Booker’s record-breaking speech offered a glimpse

Segregationist Strom Thurmond's senate-speech record was broken by Booker, a man whose rights he fought to deny.

Opinion

Editorial: Trump’s foolish tariffs take the US economy back centuries

Editorial: Pay your debts to the city, Chicagoans, and save a buck in the process

Kevin Waldman: Radical empathy and its dangerous consequences for America’s future

Ray Cavanaugh: Scholars failed to tell the truth about the genocidal Khmer Rouge

Andrew V. Papcahristos: Why America can’t afford to silence its universities

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Letters: President Donald Trump’s aspirations for Greenland remind me of Vladimir Putin

Editorial: Chicago has a domestic violence crisis hiding in plain sight

Editorial: Chicago Teachers Union ‘won’ what was long on the table. Financial strife abides.

Laura Washington: Bernie Sanders’ handoff to AOC looks like a fait accompli

Steve Chapman: Crackdown on abortion providers and seekers is reminiscent of the Fugitive Slave Act

Jim Nowlan: Democrats on Illinois’ high court must recuse themselves on gerrymandering

Editorials

Editorial: Is Lincoln Yards becoming Chicago’s new Block 37?

Editorial: In Wisconsin, Elon Musk asks, ‘Who wants to be a millionaire?’

Editorial: Springfield missed another opportunity to cut red tape and get Illinoisans back to work

Editorial: Rockford’s version of the Mag Mile is thriving. A TIF worked wonders for it.

Editorial: Aldermen warn Mayor Johnson not to sideline them on his $175 million problem. He should listen.

Commentary

Elizabeth Shackelford: President Donald Trump’s tariffs will cost us

Paul Vallas: The decline in Black teachers has nothing to do with CPS’ evaluation system

Daniel DePetris: Signalgate is distracting us from more serious issues in Yemen

Police district councilors: Enforcement of parking violations shouldn’t fall on CPD

Michael Miklaucic: The West is losing the cognitive war with Russia and China

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Investments in trauma-informed literacy should be a priority

Letters: Why wasn’t the president involved in the top secret chat about US attack plans?

Letters: We can afford to spread compassion across the world via agencies such as USAID

Letters: Defendant in Hadiya Pendleton killing deserves a fair trial

Letters: Illinois can help support local farmers with the Good Food Purchasing Law

Columnists

Heidi Stevens: For those of us hungry for hope, Sen. Cory Booker’s record-breaking speech offered a glimpse

John T. Shaw: Former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar exemplifies courage, candor and stewardship

Clarence Page: Signalgate reveals Donald Trump’s backward-looking military view

Heidi Stevens: If your rally cry is that all lives matter, show us — with your actions and your policies

Daniel DePetris: Is Europe stepping up to the plate?

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