Without the exchange of ideas, we stagnate. To stagnate is not a very good thing. It is not a good thing personally. It is especially not a good thing for us as a community. It is easy to become ...

(EDITOR’S NOTE — To protect their privacy, the people cited in this column have been given pseudonyms by the author.) Sophia, a domestic-violence victim, and her teenage son Jayden are about to lose ...

It is no surprise that President Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee is being opposed by Democrats. Surprisingly, U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions' nomination has invoked the ire of conservatives like ...

First, we can visit a library or bookstore, obtain one or more books on civil discourse and read it. Alternatively, we can search the web for "civil discourse' and look for worthwhile content. ( I did ...

Judge Edwin Lombard’s guest column of July 12 recalling his brother Rudy’s role in the local civil rights struggle and urging the New Orleans City Council to restart the stalled street renaming ...

The Civil Rights Movement of the sixties has been completely hijacked. It has changed into something neither civil nor right. Originally, the movement and its goals: full voting rights, fair public ...

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A new book on Illinois' role in the Civil War features many of the columns written by historian Tom Emery for The Dispatch and The Rock Island Argus. "The Civil War in Illinois" is an illustrated ...

Did you know that Memorial Day was originally called Decoration Day? It was first widely observed 150 years ago, in 1868, as a way to remember the soldiers who had died in the Civil War. The library ...

Sometimes I think that maybe the Civil War is over. But then something comes along to remind me how, in many minds, the war never really ended. Once it was fought with swords, now it’s with symbols.