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Heidi StevensChicago Tribune |
AI taking over reading homework feels like the result of a problem, not the cause...
Michaeleen Doucleff's book is about understanding the forces that shape our habits, our days and...
Trump has made a big deal about championing women’s sports. But his call to the...
I love that Elana Meyers Taylor shouted out her nannies alongside her husband and parents...
Joe Sass was caught on camera practicing his mantra: treating every child how he would...
I’m wondering how federal immigration agents' actions sit with those who saw vaccine mandates as...
Sports — along with art, books and nature — are not just distractions; they’re paths...
I fear that skepticism and scorn have been elevated to the upper echelons of power,...
There’s still more growing, healing, loving and protecting to do, so here are the things...
If you get a chance to ask someone in your life to talk about a...
For Samantha Wilcek, who lost her 21-year-old, a Christmas tree, so often a place to...
The Pinta Pride Project raises awareness and support for the LGBTQ community despite the cruelty and...
In this season of gratitude, readers tell us about the loved ones who helped form...
If we’re going to become a nation that truly protects children and women, we have...
Our country and our city are at a precipice, and we may soon see what...
Hunter Coe's family has spent the last decade making sense and meaning of his life...
And what will our country look like if we continue this path of wreckage —...
When you chip away at any child's ability to access education, you chip away at...
We have it in us to cheer for people from everywhere and to make room...
It's hard to believe that this blitz has anything to do with public safety or...
My column lets me go in search of people who care about each other, and...
Charlie Kirk's cause of death is all too common. His shooting wasn’t even the only...
I do understand the appeal of Arlington Heights. But we Chicagoans are not fancy people...
The Smithsonian museums are in the crosshairs of President Donald Trump, who believes they’re too “woke.”
What often gets lost in the dialogue about Chicago is the tremendous work that takes...
Donald Trump has been diligently and incrementally chipping away at the American people’s constitutional right...
In a few days I’ll drop my daughter at college for the second time. I...
Susie Lee, 49, died Sunday and is remembered as the founder of a dance club...
Mistrust is being fed to us by corporate conglomerates, crooked politicians and others with a...
A country that doesn't allow citizens to criticize their leaders is not a democracy. It's...
Nora and Rob Tonn launched Brooks Strong, a nonprofit to fund pediatric cancer research and to...
If the first six months of this administration have taught us anything, it’s that we...
A few seconds of kindness can remind us that we share this world with other...
It’s unconscionable that the physical, mental and emotional health of young people is on the...
It’s easy and convenient to focus on what divides us. But it’s more honest to...
If we’re lucky, parenting is a lifelong relationship that we get to cultivate and calibrate...
The movement to keep LGBT and CRT and DEI out of classrooms is about creating...
I love this little slice of kindness in a world that could use some right...
A viral video shows a white woman who called a 5-year-old boy the N-word at...
One thing that doesn’t fit neatly in the Trump narrative is thousands upon thousands of...
Jason Patera is moving to South Carolina to be with his family, leaving a legacy...
Roger DuClos was my friend’s dad and my dad’s friend; loving, safe grown-ups shape a...
Segregationist Strom Thurmond's senate-speech record was broken by Booker, a man whose rights he fought...
The Trump administration's policies and actions do not demonstrate that the party values the lives...
Psychology professor Ethan Kross has a powerful reframing of what so many of us may...
America has done so much good, and it has also done tremendous harm. Acknowledging both...
Scott Boorstein wanted to change the world. This year, in his honor, his loved ones...
You don’t have to be a journalist to demand answers from people in charge. But...
To be a sharper, deeper, more careful, more creative, more flexible thinker requires diversity —...
Marie and Kevin Mayer's five children found a drawer full of love letters — mostly...