Newton N. Minow

Police hold an anti-war protester over the hood of a car in front of the Conrad Hilton in 1968 during the Democratic National Convention.

Commentary: Like 1968 all over again — were any lessons learned?

August 21, 2020 at 10:10 p.m.

Riots in the streets of Chicago. Property destroyed. Tear gas. Accusations of systemic racism following the killing of a Black man. Claims of police brutality. Demands for law and order....

Commentary: ‘Sesame Street’ exists because Democrats and Republicans worked together 50 years ago. Hard to imagine now, isn’t it?

November 20, 2019 at 11:02 p.m.

The opening days of the House impeachment inquiry deepened the sharp political divisions that make our country more polarized than we once could have imagined. We seem unable to find...

Republican U.S. Sen.-elect Mitt Romney and wife Ann greet supporters as he leaves his election night party on Nov. 6, 2018, in Orem, Utah.

Sen.-elect Romney, America should have listened to you

May 31, 2019 at 9:25 p.m.

Dear Sen.-elect Mitt Romney, Although we were of different political parties, your father, George W. Romney, and I were good friends. Like yourself, your father was a successful business leader,...

Former Vice President Joe Biden, left, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich embrace after participating in a discussion on bridging political and partisan divides at the University of Delaware in Newark, Del., on Oct. 17, 2017.

A way out of these horrible political times

May 31, 2019 at 9:17 p.m.

Reflecting on our nation's loss of Arizona Sen. John McCain, I recalled his desire to name then-Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman as his running mate in 2008 and run as a...

Sculptor Gutzon Borglum's plaster cast of Lincoln's head at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield. It was made in preparation for a marble version in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol.

Save the Lincoln artifacts and spare the voters

May 31, 2019 at 9:26 p.m.

Here's an idea that benefits Illinois and exhausted TV viewers in one fell swoop. Our greatest president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, lives on in the Abraham Lincoln Presidential...

Roger Stone in Pasadena, Calif., in July 2017.

A lesson for President Trump’s advisers: How to act with impeccable integrity

May 31, 2019 at 9:17 p.m.

It is no surprise to learn of yet another Russian contact with Donald Trump’s closest advisers in the 2016 presidential campaign, this time with Roger Stone. What is shocking is...

Where are you when we need you, Father Ted?

May 31, 2019 at 9:20 p.m.

With the passing of Billy Graham, there is no religious leader today who has the influence and access of the Southern Baptist preacher who counseled presidents of both parties without...

As his co-defendant, Anthony Russo (right) listens, Daniel Ellsberg talks to reporters outside the Federal Building in Los Angeles, Ca. on Jan. 17 1973.

I had a front-row seat to the Pentagon Papers intrigue. Here’s what happened.

May 31, 2019 at 9:19 p.m.

“The Post,” the new Steven Spielberg film starring Meryl Streep as former Post publisher Katharine Graham and Tom Hanks as the paper’s editor, Benjamin C. Bradlee, is one of the...

President John F. Kennedy, right, confers with his brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, at the White House in this Oct. 1, 1962, file photo during the Cuban missile crisis.

Lessons from the Cuban missile crisis

May 11, 2019 at 9:14 a.m.

For the first time since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, America is facing a nuclear confrontation, this time with North Korea. As one of the few remaining members of the...

Why this Democrat is ditching Rauner

May 11, 2019 at 8:56 a.m.

"Why this Democrat is voting for Rauner" was the headline of my commentary that the Tribune published on March 19, 2014. Borrowing a quote from President John F. Kennedy that...

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