WASHINGTON — Donald Trump, an ongoing eruption of self-refuting statements ("I'm a very stable genius" with "a very good brain"), is adding self-impeachment to his repertoire. Spiraling downward in a tightening gyre, his increasingly unhinged public performances (Google the one with Finland'…

October marks Domestic Violence Awareness Month, a time when the whole community can offer a bit of help to those who find their lives disrupted by violence from those closest to them.

Illinois higher education is in disarray as a result of an exodus of students from our state, uncertain state funding, declining high school graduation numbers, excess capacity, and the seeming implosion of several state universities.

WASHINGTON — Dictators. Always so humorous.

The past 16 years have been nothing short of tumultuous across Iraq and Syria. The United States found that, in its hour of need, it could not rely on NATO ally Turkey to provide military support. Other allies recoiled. But on the ground, the Kurdish fighters of northern Syria and Iraq stood…

Here's one thing I know: when you hate somebody, really detest them, it eats you alive.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The American Cancer Society estimates 268,600 American women will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer this year. It also estimates 41,760 women will die from the disease in 2019.

President Trump's path to reelection goes through the Democratic Party. Goal No. 1 is to get Democrats to eliminate his greatest threat: Joe Biden.

Last week, a teenager's surprising words — and even more surprising request — went viral.

WASHINGTON — It's fair to say at this juncture that America's Quid and Ukraine's Quo have been caught in bed together.

"Who Lost China?" With the fall of the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek, the defeat of his armies and the flight to Formosa, that was the question of the hour in 1949. And no one demanded to know more insistently than the anti-Communist Congressman John F. Kennedy:

The only silver lining to be extracted from yet another report outlining sexual harassment in Springfield is the potential for further reform. When lawmakers return to the Capitol this month for the fall veto session — their first gathering following two investigations into House Speaker Mic…

With just 45 words the founders guaranteed five — no six — basic freedoms, fundamental American rights.

WASHINGTON — The beginning of the Supreme Court's term this week includes momentous oral arguments on Tuesday in two cases that illustrate clashing theories about how statutes should be construed. If properly decided, the cases will nudge Congress to act like a legislative body.

WASHINGTON — President Trump's call with the Ukrainian president was an impeachable abuse of power.

Today marks the beginning of the 79th National Newspaper Week, a time to appreciate the contributions newspaper make in their communities and to think about the consequences should newspapers disappear.

We're pleased that Gov. J.B. Pritzker has tabbed a former GOP congressman with a history of bipartisanship and record of effective governance to lead the board of one of Illinois' greatest assets and historic trusts.

In response to a recent essay of mine about our state’s parlous load of debt and unfunded obligations, a reader asked: Why so much red ink?

CHICAGO — When I was a kid, I hated Barbie.

During a slow week in Washington, it occurs to me that readers might enjoy an update on my unusual cat, Albert, aka "The Orange Dog." Born under a neighbor's front porch in the country, he spent his infancy among dogs and free-range chickens.

Celebrating 70 years of Communist Party rule, Chinese leader Xi Jinping stood in the open sunroof of a Red Flag limousine and shouted, "Greetings, comrades," to the masses below. Xi wore a Mao-style suit to his giant military parade, which featured a missile that could carry 10 nuclear warhe…

Two previous presidents over the last half-century faced accusations of wrongdoing that reached the shameful level of an impeachment inquiry. So yes, the United States has been down this road before, which means Americans can anticipate some of the drama and discord to come from impeachment …

SEOUL, South Korea — In 1950, when Han Sung-joo was 10, shrapnel from an artillery shell lodged in his hip. This happened as Gen. Douglas MacArthur's troops, fresh from the bold Incheon landing, were retaking this city — it would be lost and retaken again — after North Korea's June invasion.

Hey, have you heard about this whistleblower complaint?

For a couple of decades, Illinois has allowed roads and bridges to crumble, which doesn't make much sense for a state whose economy is based on being a transportation hub for the nation.

WASHINGTON — We long ago established that Donald Trump is a bad guy. We've multiple times said, "This is it. They've got to get rid of him." So what's so new and awful that the president of the United States must now be impeached?

WASHINGTON — Impeachment of a president is a deeply serious affair. Efforts by President Trump and his defenders to explain away his clear-as-day abuse of power are providing a bit of comic relief.

Manager Joe Maddon has never fit the once-stereotypical image of a Cubs lovable loser. And he continued to defy that description as he left the team following Sunday's loss to the division champion St. Louis Cardinals.

Even before seeing the transcript of the July 25 call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Nancy Pelosi threw the door wide open to the impeachment of Donald Trump by the Democratic House.

WASHINGTON — It began with a whistleblower, who obtained a telephone transcript between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that dealt in part with former Vice President Joe Biden's son.

Anyone who values wildlife and the treasures of nature had to be alarmed by the recent report that birds are in trouble. In the past 50 years, a comprehensive study found, the bird population of North America has declined by nearly 3 million — a loss of 29 percent. The head of the Audubon So…

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WASHINGTON — The impeachment of Donald Trump need not be a long, drawn-out affair. Speaker Nancy Pelosi could bring articles of impeachment to the floor of the House within weeks — or she could leave the president twisting slowly in the wind. Her call.

WASHINGTON — If Donald Trump were to tweet that 9 is a prime number, that Minneapolis is in Idaho, and that the sun revolves around the Earth — "Make Earth Great Again!" — would even five Republican senators publicly disagree with even one of the tweets?

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives embarked on a rare mission last week as they began an impeachment investigation regarding the actions of President Donald Trump.

WASHINGTON — Every good story needs a hero, and the saga of Brett Kavanaugh's rise to the Supreme Court has provided one: Leland Keyser.

You’re probably chuckling already. Seriously? “The joy of politics”?

After years of restoration work, Orland Grasslands near Orland Park has seen the return of bobolinks, Eastern meadowlarks, Henslow’s sparrows and other birds.

"Nice little country you've got there. It would be a shame if my best friend Vladimir burned it down." That's the essence of the threat that Donald J. Trump, the world's most incompetent gangster, delivered to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky over the phone last July.

For Democrats, political reasons to avoid stepping on the road to impeachment still stand. But political complications have collapsed in importance compared with reasons to move ahead.

The timing could not have been better for Taxpayers United of America to release its 13th annual list of the highest local public pensions last week. Or for Moody’s Investment Service to share the disappointing news that Illinois’ worst-in-the-nation pension debt stills stands at more than a…

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Now only 15 flags in the Foreign Ministry's foyer represent the nations that have not yet succumbed to Beijing's financial blandishments — targeted at governments and individual politicians — and other pressures to sever diplomatic relations with this island nation. There we…