The Sunday morning outrage from President Donald Trump's Twitter account ought to be enough to provoke Republican leaders from their blind support, or passive condoning, of his noxious behavior, particularly as it pertains to immigrants.

Yet, so far, the nation continues to wait for the kind of American leadership that celebrates the melting-...Read more

President Donald Trump's use of Twitter on Sunday to tell four women minority members of the House of Representatives who have strongly criticized his immigration policies to "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came" is textbook racism.

That three of the four progressive Democrats were born in the ...Read more

Many Chicagoans have never held or even seen a print copy of the Chicago Defender, and soon, no one will. The South Side-based newspaper, which once called itself "The World's Greatest Weekly," has decided that the future lies online. The last print issue will come out Wednesday.

There are few institutions of which it can be said that the ...Read more

CHICAGO -- Donald Trump got elected by criticizing America.

His campaign slogan told us over and over, in speech after speech, on hat after hat, we were no longer great.

His inaugural address referenced poverty, gangs, drugs, rusted-out factories, lousy schools and American carnage.

"For many decades, we've enriched foreign industry at the ...Read more

The resolution House Democrats plan to pass condemning President Trump for his xenophobic, offensive tweets over the weekend is just that -- a resolution, without consequences or punishment. It's not a move toward impeachment, which House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has repeatedly said she opposes. It's not even an official "censure," which is a more ...Read more

One of the marvels of the race to the moon in the 1960s were the Apollo spacesuits -- blazing, iconic white on the outside and composed of 21 layers of nested fabric. Imagine putting on that many T-shirts and trying to do anything.

Those 21 layers were tough enough to stop a micrometeorite, but flexible enough to allow the astronauts to romp ...Read more

Several news and political websites maintain running lists of President Donald Trump's most offensive tweets, from his skepticism of former President Barack Obama's birthplace to his attacks on the late U.S. Sen. John McCain to his sophomoric nicknames for fellow elected officials and world leaders.

The aggregators of those lists had yet ...Read more

President Donald Trump's Twitter tantrum calling for four female Democratic members of Congress to "go back" to the "crime-infested places from which they came" was ugly and ill-founded. Only one of the four, Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, was born outside the United States, in Somalia.

As an editorial in the Los Angeles Times noted, Trump wasn'...Read more

Since President Trump famously hates to read, it's unlikely that he has studied historical texts on how leaders with autocratic tendencies -- even duly elected ones -- have turned their countries into dictatorships.

And yet, it's absolutely uncanny how he is following those leaders, taking our country into uncharted, undemocratic waters.

In ...Read more

In backing down from his plan to include a question about U.S. citizenship on next year's census form, President Donald Trump on Thursday gave credence to the claims of critics that his administration had an ulterior -- and partisan -- motive in pressing for inclusion of the question.

During rambling remarks in the Rose Garden, the president ...Read more

President Donald Trump's Twitter feed is a repugnant place, and no one would want the thankless task of having to weed through all his bitter, bigoted ramblings to determine which are the most offensive. But a three-tweet thread early Sunday morning -- in which he wrote that the four progressive House Democrats who call themselves "The Squad" ...Read more

It takes a village to protect an alleged high-profile predator.

That was the takeaway late last week when the indictments of two rich, powerful men, both charged with preying on underage girls, also swept up the men accused of enabling them.

Superstar singer R. Kelly and billionaire businessman Jeffrey Epstein openly enjoyed the spoils of ...Read more

All Americans have a stake in what becomes of a fellow citizen who encounters consequences for exercising our highly prized right to speak freely. So let's check on Colin Kaepernick.

Kaepernick is the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback who chose to kneel during the national anthem before some National Football League games. Evidently it ...Read more

Horse racing has been a staple of life on the North American continent for centuries. The first track was built in Long Island, New York, in 1665, and you can arguably say an 1824 race in Long Island between famous thoroughbreds American Eclipse and Sir Henry was America's first national sporting event. As reflected in TV viewership, social ...Read more

After the deeply dismaying 2016 presidential election, the Democratic-controlled California Legislature dedicated itself to "the resistance," with leaders saying they would stand up to the new president to protect the state's values from his more onerous policies. Some of the resulting legislation, such as new laws to protect undocumented ...Read more

It was never a matter of "if," but "when" Alex Acosta would step down in the days after sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein's arrest.

Acosta, the U.S. secretary of Labor did resign on Friday -- two days after he tried to make a logical case for the lenient deal he gave Epstein -- which he didn't; six days after Epstein's arrest in New Jersey; six ...Read more