What’s the matter with Chicago?
The city was always corrupt. Now it is broken
Charles Lipson
Charles Lipson is the Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Political Science Emeritus at the University of Chicago, where he founded the programme on International Politics, Economics, and Security.
Tuesday
Friday
A trio of scandals
Unanswered questions are eroding trust in American democracy
Wednesday
Democrats vexed by Trump’s success in Iran
A leaderless party, unified only by hatred of Trump, splutters and fulminates
Friday
Fordow in a fortnight?
The reasons Trump delayed his decision about bombing
Monday
Why Democrats back the wrong side of 80-20 issues
Progressives favor those issues, and Trump has used them to trap the party
Friday
What to do about Iran?
Tehran is trying to run out the clock
Friday
Roadblocks prevent Trump from deporting millions of illegal immigrants
Local judges and officials aren’t the only obstacle to Trump’s immigration enforcement
Friday
Another spring, another round of anti-Semitism on campus
What’s different is that the Trump administration is finally taking a strong stand
Monday
Trump takes a hammer to the universities
And there are plenty more tools he can use
Monday
How to deal with the student mob
The line between free speech and violence is clear
Thursday
Trump’s ‘on-again, off-again’ presidency
The President is taking America for a bumpy ride
Monday
Trump only harms himself by floating the idea of a third term
The courts and the public will render the classic New Jersey verdict, ‘fuhgeddaboudit!’
Thursday
PBS and NPR should never have received public funding
A democratic government should not sponsor news programs
Friday
Will Putin give peace a chance?
He still demands huge chunks of Ukraine and other dramatic concessions
Monday
Columbia exemplifies the failure of universities
Ideological zealotry and rampant antisemitism are allowed to flourish
Wednesday
It’s morning in Trump’s America
From our UK edition
Donald Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night was the most powerful, rousing, and pointed of any presidential address in decades. The first line captured the theme of the night. “America is back…and we are just getting started.” It ended with a peroration that his administration would “take up the righteous
Tuesday
What’s behind the vicious attacks on Elon Musk?
He’s doing big things, but he’s also a way to attack a popular president
Monday
Trump’s presidency is an ink-blot test for America
Democrats see a dictator. Republicans see a strong leader fulfilling his promises.
Sunday
The deeper meaning behind Trump’s blizzard of actions
He has two overriding goals: to build a lasting MAGA movement and to roll back the bureaucratic state
Friday
When government officials are threatened, they deserve protection
That includes former officials, even if they are the president’s political opponents
