Chicago Tribune Opinion

In domestic violence cases, battered women are five times more likely to be murdered if there’s a gun in the house. That’s why people under domestic violence restraining orders, by federal law, can’t have guns. Last week the Supreme Court heard oral arguments challenging that federal law.

Trump is barred anew from targeting court staff and witnesses, which he claims violates his First Amendment rights. Trump, who prefers to fight his legal battles in the more easily manipulated court of public opinion, called Chutkan’s gag order “another partisan knife stuck in the heart of our Democracy by Crooked Joe Biden, who was granted the right to muzzle his political opponent …”

Colleges also look for hard and soft skills in their STEM majors and you can highlight them in your essay.

The Rev. Ken Fleck, a longtime Catholic priest of Southwest Chicago churches, including St. George in Tinley Park, has a passion for growing giant pumpkins in the garden of his weekend home in Michigan City, where he spends his “semi-retirement.” His more recent vine-produced wonder is just a couple hundred pounds away from tipping the scales at one-half a ton, and it’s in need of home.

This week, a New York judge determined that Trump & Co. fraudulently manipulated real estate values to drive favorable business terms over a span of more than 10 years.

Here’s hoping McCarthy takes a cue from the Senate, works out a bipartisan budget thrilling to no one, and brings a vote on a continuing resolution to keep the government running to call his tormentors’ bluff. If the clown car shuts down the government, at least the nation will know their names.

If Musk wants to run his private town square into the ground and make it a cesspool of hate, that’s his prerogative. But he should not blame the victim(s) when his advertisers run away.

What was originally titled “Gypsy: A Musical Fable” is now known by audiences in its shortened title form as just “Gypsy.” This musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents is loosely based on the 1957 memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, and focuses more on her mother, Rose, the latter whom is now forever associated with as the most pointed to example of a “stage mother.” Marriott Theatre has a new production of “Gypsy” now running through Oct. 15, 2023.

As fossil fuel conglomerates continue to accrue staggering and politically formidable wealth, the costs of extreme weather events are falling on people who can little afford them, and who had little to do with causing them.

In America’s latest iteration of law vs. scofflaw, Fani Willis has brought the most consequential prosecution in U.S. history.

To people outside the MAGA cult, using donated funds to defend an ongoing pattern of criminality is galling.

Like Trump’s ”very fine people, on both sides” defense of neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, bothsiding slavery is an attempt to defend the indefensible. In a post-truth political climate where alternative facts challenge the rule of law, it’s hard to say what’s more dangerous — DeSantis trying to re-write American history, or DeSantis claiming he had nothing to do with it.

Only in America, under Citizens United where the oil industry influences who is elected, do you see things like Texas Republicans working to kill their own state’s lucrative renewable energy sector.

Even if you do not prepare at an elite high school, top colleges are still looking for diversity across the board. It will be to your credit if you have taken advantage of all that your high school offers to you — in both academic and extracurricular areas.

Two weeks ago, in 303 Creative LLC, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority resurrected separate but equal in public accommodations by re-casting discriminatory conduct as “free speech.”

Addictive angertainment is the opposite of information, and it is ripping us apart. Returning truth to the networks may sound extreme, but it is essential if our union is going to hold.

Indiana, so far, has gotten it right on drag. Despite trying to limit parents’ rights on gender care — with a law largely blocked on Constitutional grounds — the far right’s obsession with drag hasn’t infected Indiana’s state house. Yet.

At the end of our farm road, along U.S. Highway 10, Larry and Debbie Wappel and their sons Larry Jr. and Eric have 35 acres of what was the old Bolduc Family farm in potatoes. Paul and Helen Bolduc were not only close friends and neighbors but also very active members of our small town All Saints Catholic Church in San Pierre.

Either the GOP’s better angels will pivot back to the rule of law — and soon — or a major cohort of Americans will renounce the legal system altogether, convinced by Trump that it is partisan and rigged.

Columnist Ted Slowik writes, prints and mails letters every month to his two adult children so they will have a tangible, written record of their shared history from an era of digital text messaging and social media pictures.

The Grand Hotel, with its world’s longest extended front porch and rocking chairs, boasts 1,375 planted and potted geraniums, as a symbolic signature flower to welcome guests for an experience wrapped in fond traditions that bridge both past and present along the lakeshore of Michigan’s Mackinac Island.

The Lyric Opera of Chicago’s stunning production of this groundbreaking American musical "West Side Story" is playing until June 25 at Lyric Opera House, 20 N. Wacker Drive.

Many older adults require care and are vulnerable to violence perpetrated by a caregiver or someone they trust.

DeSantis’ authoritarian instincts in Florida are dangerous, alarming, and un-American. Imagine the destruction he would unleash if scaled nationwide.

A new Ernie Pyle biography, "The Soldier’s Truth: Ernie Pyle and the Story of World War II" by David Chrisinger,” is set to be released May 30 by Penguin Press.