By Jackie Spinner >> In 1988 I was a freshman in college, and the country had just elected George H.W. Bush president. More than half of young voters (53%), ages 18 to 29, voted for Bush, who beat former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis. Still, they represented just 20% of the total voter turnout. Four years
Students in the “Cartooning” class at Columbia College Chicago created cartoons about the 2024 election. The class is taught by Richard Laurent, who worked as an editorial cartoonist for the Chicago Sun-Times. Laurent is an adjunct at Columbia. Some of the cartoons were first published in the Columbia Chronicle and are reprinted with permission.
By Jackie Spinner Earlier this year, Will Lewis, the Washington Post’s new publisher and CEO, disclosed in a staff meeting that the Post had lost nearly half of its digital subscribers since the peak of 2020 when Donald Trump was still president and the COVID-19 pandemic was raging. The Post had already announced that it
By William H. Freivogel The purpose of a newspaper endorsement of a president or other political candidate is to pull together the information about the candidates, measure the candidates against the news organization’s and the nation’s values and then cogently explain to readers/voters why a particular candidate deserves their vote. That’s why my decade of
By Maureen McGough and Seth Stoughton Policing is an essential component of public safety, but it has become hyper-politicized and polarized to the detriment of the profession and the people it serves. If you think Black lives matter, you must think blue lives don’t, and vice versa. If you work with the police you must
