


Somali netizens are proving that the best way to fight blind hatred from the White House is with humor.

By John Kass Sunday Dec. 7, 2025 For the 40 years that my wife and I have been together, she’s never lobbied me about a column. Not once. Not even when my writing made things difficult for her socially, when I was the lead columnist at the Tribune, a conservative, and our small West Suburban […]

We are watching a cultural inheritance unravel faster than families can pass it down.

How should we assess whether President Donald Trump’s tariffs have been effective? It’s an important question—yet frustratingly difficult to answer. Trump has outlined overlapping, confusing, and sometimes competing goals for the tariffs. He’s celebrated them as a source of government revenue, for example, but also claimed they are meant as a negotiating tactic. They can’t […]

In these fraught political times when our political choices are largely limited to authoritarian Republicans and totalitarian Democrats and federal agencies vie for opportunities to violate individual rights, it’s difficult to feel anything other than contempt for government. It’s worth remembering, though, that the current mess isn’t a good representation of the Founding ideals of […]