Weighing in on polls that show black voters dramatically swinging closer to Obama’s view on same-sex marriage, Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page says that most will decline to scrap their other political concerns for the sake of a single issue. Conservatives warned, often with glee, that President Barack Obama’s support for same-sex marriage would spark…

Clarence Page notes in his Chicago Tribune column that, as the country’s demographics change, blacks could teach whites a little something about minority status. White babies are no longer a majority of new births, according to theU.S. Census Bureau. America is quietly “browning,” it is said, like dinner rolls in a warm oven. Yet such…

In his Chicago Tribune column, Clarence Page says that any dispute over the U.S. Senate candidate’s heritage serves to illustrate how quickly our old racial narratives are failing to keep up with changing times. So what if Elizabeth Warren claims to be part Native American Indian? She’s entitled, according to historical documents. Besides, Americans never…

Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page weighs in on President Obama’s most recent effort to capture the youth vote by appearing on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. Page says it’s a good move as Obama works to rekindle the “Yes, we can” enthusiasm among young voters from 2008. President Barack Obama “slow-jams the news?” Is this…

In the wake of the Mega Millions hoopla, Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page has some lighthearted advice for lottery winners. First, if you become a winner, you should be prepared to gain a lot of new friends and lose others, especially if you chipped in with a group to buy the winning ticket. Witness the…

Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page checks in on the Affordable Care Act arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court, asking whether the court’s man in the middle is looking for reasons to knock down the health law or save it. Obamacare faced a tough crowd at the U.S. Supreme Court last week. But those tough, probing…

Saying that a high school diploma is no longer the gateway to the middle class, Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page considers the prospect that college dropouts could obtain the equivalent of a college diploma, similar to a GED. Could millions of college dropouts get a second chance through a GED-style equivalent of a college diploma?…

Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page writes an interesting retrospective on the mixed legacy of the late right-wing Internet entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart. He points out that civility, accuracy and accountability were not always a big deal for him. Speak no ill of the dead. So goes a saying from ancient Greece. I must beg for an…

Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page concludes that the GOP presidential candidates’ extreme views on sex explain why that subject has superseded economic recovery as the dominant topic so far this election year. How has an election year that was supposed to be all about economic recovery suddenly become all about sex? Critics blame the media.…