Chicago Tribune

“Most Americans have no idea why Putin invaded Ukraine or what his goals are now,” the pundit-poodle Tucker Carlson observed before his Feb. 6 interview of Russian President Vladimir Putin. “They’ve never heard his voice. That’s wrong.” What total claptrap. We’ve never been under any illusions about why Putin invaded Ukraine, his being a naked grab for power and control at the expense of a sovereign nation. Putin’s goals, any fool can see, are the subjugation of a proud and independent people with (for the record) a long history here in Chicago. This particular editorial board would be delight......

For years, the Pew Research Center listed Black Americans as having the highest levels of religiosity and faith. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., in fact, was known as “the moral conscience of America” by many Americans, irrespective of race. King was not exceptional in this regard. Black people’s relationship with faith and spirituality has been essential to their survival in a society that has sanctioned, tacitly or explicitly, the brutalization and subjugation of Black bodies, historically and up to the present day. With nowhere to turn but God, Black people developed a big-picture vision o......

CHICAGO — A Cook County judge said Friday she will decide late next week the fate of a legal challenge seeking to strike former President Donald Trump’s name from Illinois’ March 19 Republican primary ballot. Judge Tracie Porter announced her plans after a near four-hour Daley Center hearing that featured footage of the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol as attorneys for Trump sought to cast the challenge to the former president’s place on the ballot as a political attempt to “abuse the election code of Illinois.” Caryn Lederer, representing the group of voters backed by the group Free ......

Drivers for Uber and Lyft are planning a one-day airport strike in 10 cities on Valentine’s Day, including Chicago, New York, Newark, Tampa and Orlando, to once again call attention to demands for better wages, better safety practices and job protection. The Justice for App Workers coalition, which represents over 30,000 ride-share and delivery drivers across Illinois, is leading the local effort by calling for Chicago Uber and Lyft drivers to rally at O’Hare International Airport Wednesday at 11 a.m., according to a news release from the coalition. The one-day strike means drivers would refus......

How rough was special counsel Robert K. Hur’s report on Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents, released Thursday afternoon? It first seemed to depend on your newspaper of choice. “Biden Cleared in Documents Case; Report Raises Concerns About His Memory,” read the headline in The New York Times, leading with what Democrats desperately hoped the main takeaway would be. “Biden Knowingly Kept and Shared Classified Material, Special Counsel Concludes,” read the contemporaneous story in The Wall Street Journal, foregrounding exactly the opposite. Both papers pivoted in what we call subheads i......