Tag: Steve Chapman

President Obama (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Illinois is foolish to compete for the Obama library

Steve Chapman · May 5, 2014 4:00 am

The drone war in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Yemen has been going on for years, though the number of strikes has declined lately.ÃÂ (AP Photo)

The drone war’s secrets and lies

Steve Chapman · May 1, 2014 4:00 am

Hillary Clinton (AP/Susan Walsh)

Hillary Clinton, the unrepentant hawk

Steve Chapman · April 28, 2014 4:00 am

Jose Alvarenga, center, BAMN national organizer, and others protest the Supreme Court ruling on the campus of the University of Michigan Tuesday, April 22, 2014, in Ann Arbor, Mich. (AP/Detroit News, David Coates)

Democracy, the Supreme Court and affirmative action

Steve Chapman · April 23, 2014 4:00 am

There are narrow bounds on what more can and should be done on behalf of victims of crimes. (Thinkstock)

What’s wrong with victims’ rights laws?

Steve Chapman · April 20, 2014 4:00 am

A pro-Russian gunman clears the way for a combat vehicle with gunmen on top in Slovyansk, Ukraine, on Wednesday. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)

Obama and the myth of appeasement

Steve Chapman · April 17, 2014 4:00 am

In this photo taken on April 8, 2014, Tim Miller, left, Texas EquuSearch founder, and volunteer Gene Robinson, who builds the group's drones, checks out the wiring of a drone they have used for searches in Santa Fe, Texas. The group relies mostly on horseback and all-terrain vehicles to search rough terrain. But it also employs 4-pound aerial drones to survey the ground with digital cameras. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Mayra Beltran)ÃÂ

Harmless drones get federal flak

Steve Chapman · April 13, 2014 4:00 am

Medical marijuana clone plants at a medical marijuana dispensary in Oakland, Calif. (AP/Jeff Chiu)

Democrats face dilemma on legalizing marijuana

Steve Chapman · April 10, 2014 4:00 am

When Congress blocks off one avenue of campaign finance, millionaires find other routes. (Thinkstock)

Lifting the lid on campaign contributions

Steve Chapman · April 7, 2014 4:00 am

Ukrainian tanks are transported from their base in Perevalne, outside Simferopol, Crimea on March 26. (AP/Pavel Golovkin)

Boots on the Ground in Ukraine?

Steve Chapman · April 3, 2014 4:00 am

Upon arriving in the White House, President Obama left the Bush-Cheney surveillance programs largely alone. (Thinkstock)

NSA surveillance and the dangers of unchecked power

Steve Chapman · March 30, 2014 4:00 am

How Hobby Lobby’s Obamacare birth control case will hurt conservatives

Steve Chapman · March 27, 2014 12:00 am