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This holiday/cold/flu season, we're waiting for the public health campaign that would save thousands of Americans from illness: Keep your hands to yourself. Don't shake hands.

Shall we judge Gary Shapiro by the sleazy company he's kept in Chicago?

"There on the beaches of Normandy, I began to reflect on the wonders of these ordinary people whose lives are laced with the markings of greatness. At every stage of their lives they were part of historic challenges and achievements of a magnitude the world had never before witnessed."

At the Asia-Pacific summit in China, Russian President Vladimir Putin did his best to appear relaxed, even playful. As his country faces some of its biggest international challenges in the post-Soviet era, he is showing an incredible levity. There are two ways to interpret that: as a subtle...

Sen. Marco Rubio is reportedly considering whether to run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, with an announcement expected in a few weeks. One factor that must loom large in his deliberations is that former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, with whom Rubio has long been allied, is also...

When Laura Pekarik filed a lawsuit challenging Chicago's strict food truck rules, she expected the battle to play out in court. What she didn't expect was for the city to bring her family into it.

We stood outside the entryway of the funeral parlor, a few of us smoking, everyone talking.

Another Veterans Day has come and gone, with a fair amount of hand-wringing in the press about problems veterans face re-entering the workforce. Much of the coverage focuses on hard cases involving physical disabilities and post-traumatic stress disorder, creating a false impression that many...

After reading the Nov. 11 Perspective piece by U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., I wonder if anyone could disagree with her analysis. She certainly did not sound like a liberal or conservative to me. She sounded like an American who wants fair balance in our country. A country that...

The Tribune’s comprehensive investigative reporting on the “fun and games” of Chicago Public Schools bond financing reaffirms Thomas Jefferson’s statement to the effect that if given a choice of a government without newspapers and newspapers without a government, he...

“ . . . and accompanying materials quoted an anonymous financial adviser as saying the product had ‘no downside’” (News, Nov. 7).

When Republican Bruce Rauner claimed victory Tuesday in a bitter race for governor, his speech set off a whole new wave of controversy. He told supporters he had called Democratic legislative leaders Michael Madigan and John Cullerton, "and I said to them, 'This is an opportunity for us to work...

Nik Wallenda intends to walk across the Chicago River on a tightrope next weekend. It's a stunt — a staged event designed to capture public attention. You could say that "10 Things" is a stunt, too, which means you'd better pay attention. Here are 10 looks at stunts, from action scenes in...

The Chicago History Museum has opened an exhibit about the year 1968, truly a tumultuous 366 days — yes, it was a leap year — not only because of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the social upheaval and riots that followed, but also the ongoing Vietnam War...

Should we be ashamed of our selfies? Everyone seems to be so self-obsessed these days, capturing their own images for posterity, or for their smartphones at least. A selfie from the Academy Awards nearly broke Twitter in March. Even the pope has become a serial selfie-poser. And an ABC show...