Opinions

Military parades, “treasonous” opponents — do you sense a pattern here? President Trump is such a master of the politics of distraction that everything he...

“Congress has been dropping in relative power along a descending curve of 60 years’ duration, with the rate of fall markedly increased since 1933....

Encouragement can come from unexpected, perhaps the least likely, sources. Have spent the better part of the past week or more in a hospital room —...

When I was a kid, there were college basketball doubleheaders in the Chicago Stadium. The host school for these events was Loyola University of...

Every summer I am fortunate enough to take my daughters away for a couple weeks. We visit family in Florida, spend days on the...

In the flurry of year end reviews and new year beginnings, one can be excused to easily tire of reading about predictions and resolutions....

It’s been at least a couple years since I’ve read “A Christmas Carol” from front to back. Need to put that on next year’s...

Robert E. Lee wasn’t a Nazi, and surely would have had no sympathy for the white supremacist goons who made his statue a rallying...

A few years ago (at least it seems like just a few) I sprinted out of my Decatur office on a summer morning or...

For the past five years, the first full week of February has meant starting a three-month routine that will end with a trip to...