Edwin C. Yohnka: For America’s 250th, Donald Trump wants a national spectacle over local remembrance
Donald Trump's hopes for America's 250th mimic Richard Nixon's own for the bicentennial.
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Edwin C. Yohnka: ICE officers should not be allowed to wear masks
The masks send a signal to ICE officers and the public that they are not accountable for their actions — even illegal ones.
ACLU officials: Why do trans children in sports warrant an executive order from Donald Trump?
Donald Trump is directing the power of government to attack a handful of young trans people.
Taunting transgender children is off limits
In three decades of working on public policy, there were a few rules that every thoughtful person in this work followed. On top of that list was the principle that...
It’s time to restrict police cellphone (listening) privileges
Imagine this: A family with young children decides to spend the day visiting a Chicago-area museum, shopping on the Magnificent Mile or hitting some of the historic Lincoln sites in...
Getting it right on police body cameras
As police departments nationwide, including the Chicago Police Department, move swiftly to adopt body cameras to record interactions between officers and civilians, we should pause. It would be unwise to...
Collection of DNA in crimes must have limits
In "Fighting crime with DNA" (Commentary, Oct. 9), columnist Steve Chapman embraces a current social phenomenon--dubbed the "CSI Effect"--in his endorsement of DNA collection for all people arrested in the...
O’Hare search
Two letters published by the Tribune on Jan. 22, one by Ronald H. Rodriguez ("Profiling at O'Hare") and the other by Janet Poore ("Get over it"), miss the point of...
ANTI-LOITERING SPIN
The front-page headline regarding the U.S. Supreme Court's decision declaring Chicago's "anti-gang loitering law" unconstitutional dramatically distorts the substance and import of that decision ("Top court ruling shows way to...