By John Kass Chicago Tribune (TNS) Northwestern University students are still being criticized by woke and unwoke scolds young and old, many of them working journalists, for […]
Columns/Opinion
Advice for climate-conscious: Don’t sweat small stuff
It can be confusing for climate-conscious consumers to sort through the carbon-reduction options out there in search of the ones that can truly make a difference. Even […]
Can’t we just enjoy the movie
I adored the story of Cinderella as a child. The prospect of having a man so in love with me that he’d criss-cross the kingdom searching for […]
Barriers zigzag across America like a scar
A few words about walls. Unsurprisingly, the one Donald Trump is trying to build on the southern border — the one he swore Mexico would pay for […]
Sanctions on North Korea hurt women
The policy of the United States toward North Korea can be summed up succinctly: Sanctions, sanctions and more sanctions. The U.S. believes its policy of “maximum pressure” […]
Traffic stop isn’t just a stop
The Fourth Amendment prohibits “unreasonable searches and seizures.” But the Supreme Court has interpreted that protection pretty loosely when it comes to traffic stops, for which the […]
Pennsylvania 2020: It’s going to get complicated
Pennsylvania is not a slam-dunk for Donald Trump’s re-election campaign. That’s one takeaway from Tuesday’s elections, which turned the Philadelphia suburbs even bluer, as Republicans suffered additional […]
Trump cannot ever go home again to New York
The (mostly) charming family movie “Mr. Popper’s Penguins“ is about a divorced father living alone in his posh Manhattan digs. Unexpectedly, he receives two boxes of penguins […]
Don’t have to look far for a case of real collusion
If you are paying attention to the Washington circus that is the impeachment inquiry into President Trump’s handling of the much maligned Ukraine call, this is what […]
This boomer OK with ‘OK boomer’
Kevin Riordan The Philadelphia Inquirer I tell my millennial editor I want to write about this “hey boomer” thing. I flirt with the notion of asking her […]