Watching Terry McAuliffe stumble to defeat in a state that Joe Biden won by 10 points a year ago, a mild suggestion seems in order: Democrats probably need a new way to talk about progressive ideology and education.

Whenever we had major social legislation pass and become law, we had both political parties involved in the process.

Forget Congress. It has become a joke.

Headlines are projecting that the prospects for the upcoming holidays look bleak.

The annual "trick-or-treat" ritual is over. Not so the "tricks" perpetuated by congressional Democrats about their tax-and-spend ritual and their phony numbers.

Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson and Martin Luther King Jr. were among the great champions of progressive ideas in the 20th century.

The U.S. economy was weaker than expected in the third quarter, which is bad news for any American whose livelihood depends on strong economic growth and especially disappointing for the White House, which is struggling to reassure voters about the state of the economy amid rising prices and a historic supply crunch.

Will Leonard, an illustrious Tribune nightlife critic, hated Mort Sahl when he performed at Chicago's famed Mister Kelly's nightclub in 1973. "Mort Sahl almost always is a surprise.

It's open enrollment season for Medicare. Local TV stations and cable networks are flooded with ads for various insurance supplements.

Last Halloween, I gathered up a lawn chair and an enormous bowl of candy and sat on my front steps, not quite sure what to expect.

A "complex, coordinated and deliberate attack" was how John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, on Monday described a recent drone assault on a U.S. military outpost in Syria that helps train local allies to fight ISIS.

People ask me all the time why I consider myself a conservative.

I love Chattanooga, and I love nonprofits.

"They're Coming to America" — Neil Diamond

How lean can we make the U.S. Army before it's unable to do its job?

Republicans themselves don't all realize it, but they're winning the political debate over voting laws.

White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain brought criticism on himself last week when he retweeted a post from Harvard economist Jason Furman. Furman claimed that rising inflation and nationwide supply chain issues that have delayed products from reaching store shelves are a "high-class problem."

The Biden administration has acknowledged that in the last fiscal year the U.S. failed to issue roughly 80,000 green cards that should have been given to legal immigrant workers.

There seems to be something for everyone in the massive spending packages now working their way through Congress.

It was a president named George Washington who said, "If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led like sheep to the slaughter," and right now Merrick Garland is leading us.

Britain's Home Office says more than 12,500 migrants have broken the law to get into the UK so far this year.

Last November, Dorian Abbot, a geophysicist at the University of Chicago, posted a series of slide presentations on YouTube making a case against the use of group identity as a primary criterion in selection processes. He was immediately targeted for cancellation.

What is the greatest threat to educating children today? Is it COVID-19, or ignorance? I'm going for number two. There is growing evidence to back me up.