With nixed Iran nuclear deal, is containment our only option?

The path to today's problems with Iran passed through the University of Chicago squash court where on Dec. 2, 1942, for 4.5 minutes physicist Enrico Fermi, making calculations on a slide rule, achieved the controlled release of energy from an atomic nucleus. Historian Richard Rhodes says that Fermi and his colleagues were risking "a small Chernobyl in the midst of a crowded city."

Axelrod’s advice to Liberals: convince voters you still represent change

Re-election campaigns - like the one the Trudeau Liberals will embark on next year - hang on a government's ability to convince voters that it still represents positive change, Barack Obama's chief campaign strategist David Axelrod said Friday. David Axelrod and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics in February.

Ludwig Von Mises: From delusion to destruction: The unmasking of Marxism

A history teacher who received a scholarship to attend the program later wrote to the magazine to say: The lectures themselves I found provocative, stimulating and highly rewarding. As a classic exposition of the virtues of individualism and the evils of socialism, buttressed with an impressive array of scholarship, they were unmatched.

37 of 38 economists said the GOP tax plans would grow the debt. The 38th misread the question.

An overwhelming majority of academic economists say in a new survey that the Republican tax proposals would cause America's debt to grow by one critical measure. Thirty-seven of 38 experts surveyed by the University of Chicago's Initiative on Global Markets agreed that the GOP tax bills in Congress would cause U.S. debt to increase "substantially" faster than the economy.

Op-Ed Columnist: America’s Best University President

Several years ago Robert Zimmer was asked by an audience in China why the University of Chicago was associated with so many winners of the Nobel Prize - 90 in all , counting this month's win by the behavioral economist Richard Thaler. Zimmer, the university's president since 2006, answered that the key was a campus culture committed to "discourse, argument and lack of deference."

Meet the candidate: Daniel Biss talks Rauner, campaign for governor

As he fights to win the democratic gubernatorial primary in the fall of 2018, state Sen. Daniel Biss says he is excited and confident about the position his campaign is in, winning the nomination to challenge Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner. Biss officially announced his candidacy for the democratic nomination on March 20 on a Facebook Live video.

Mayor Emanuel Congratulates Over 31,000 Youth On Successfully…

Mayor Rahm Emanuel today congratulated more than 31,000 youth for successfully completing the One Summer Chicago job program. The 12 week program provided youth ages 14-24 with job training, mentoring opportunities, continuing education programming and more.

African Americans deeply pessimistic about where country is heading, poll finds

A large majority of African-Americans feel negatively about the direction the country is heading and most are pessimistic about their own prospects under the Trump administration, a poll released this week shows. In a nationwide survey of 1,003 African-Americans, taken in July and August of this year, 84 percent said they feel the country is on the wrong track and around two thirds said they feel worried about President Donald Trump and fear his policies will negatively affect black people.

Fourth biz leader quits Trump council after Charlottesville

A fourth business leader resigned Tuesday from President Donald Trump's White House jobs council in the latest sign that corporate America's romance with Trump is faltering following his equivocal original response to violence by white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia. The parade of departing leaders now includes the chief executives for Merck, Under Armour and Intel and now the president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing.

Hideous consequences of ideas

In 1948, a 38-year-old North Carolinian and English professor at the University of Chicago coined a memorable phrase: "ideas have consequences." Richard Weaver, a traditionalist conservative from the Asheville area who briefly taught at North Carolina State University before landing his Chicago job, was making a philosophical point in his provocative book "Ideas Have Consequences" about the nature of truth and implications of denying its universality.