What the academics hostile to their own field of study want to do is take a term that is readily recognized, broadly understood, and generates public interest, and replace it with something more obscure for no good reason.

America’s latest migrant crisis has come to Chicago and, in an unfortunately Chicago-style way, threatens to reopen old divisions over race, ethnicity and whether new arrivals might be getting helped before others in need who are already here.

A new building at Roberts Farm could offer some vital improvements so more students can enjoy Roberts Farm like the SAD 17 fifth-graders presently do. SAD 17 students are counting on you to vote yes to investing in a bigger, better building for Roberts Farm on June 13.

We are disheartened by a group of bills that once again targets our company. One bill of concern is L.D. 1111 — a misguided proposal that would usurp the authority of water utilities to exercise their science-based stewardship of local water resources.

In the absence of a better word, “woke” is unavoidable — so unavoidable, in fact, that Trump used it describe the military on the same day he knocked it as nebulous and overused.

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is in the process of killing Turkey’s democracy, and that’s a very destructive historical crime with long-term ramifications throughout the developing world, especially in culturally Muslim nations.

With her wild hair, peekaboo sweater and extraordinary claim that then-presidential candidate Joe Biden had sexually assaulted her, Tara Reade merited considerable skepticism.

If a Black child is told, overtly or covertly, he or she cannot succeed in life, many will internalize that message. Some will use it as an excuse to engage in crime, including the looting of stores and even shootings as we constantly witness in some of our major cities. Others will simply give up, or drop out of school, dooming far too many to a life of failure and antisocial behavior.