Ronald E. Yates 
Why Journalists Risk Their Lives: It’s Part of the Job Nobody ever said doing good journalism is easy–or safe. In fact, reporters and photographers who have spent significant time covering war, revolution, political upheaval, and natural disasters are keenly aware that when they arrive in war-ravaged places like Ukraine, Iraq, …
For most of my professional life, I worked as a reporter and foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. I feel privileged to have been a journalist during one of that newspaper’s golden eras—from about 1969 to 1997 when I left to teach journalism as a professor and dean at the …
Men who declare they are women got a kick in the groin from the Supreme Court this week. Specifically, in a 5-4 decision, the Court stopped the administration’s absurd effort to expand protections under Title IX to include transgender students. The Biden-Harris Title IX expansion would have opened the doors …
Kamala Harris wants to implement federal price controls on groceries and other items Americans spend their hard-earned money on. She wants to give first-time homebuyers $25,000 to afford a starter home and give families earning $50,000 or less a $6,000 income tax credit for each minor child. She wants to …
The 2024 Paris Olympic Games are over, and now that I have had a moment to evaluate them, I figure it’s time to share a few thoughts. Yes, America amassed 126 medals, 40 of which were gold. I am proud of those athletes. They performed at the highest levels. Good …
The Democrats are attempting to gaslight you into believing that Kamala Harris is a moderate—a political creature that has been mostly extinct in the Democrat Party for a couple of decades now. Don’t let them hoodwink you. The facts say otherwise, no matter how much gaslighting Kamala’s leftist handlers attempt …
When I joined the U.S. Army in the 1960s, we were told our job was to defeat communism—specifically, the kind practiced in the old Soviet Union. After almost a year of specialized top-secret training, I was assigned to a specialized detachment of the Army Security Agency in West Germany. Our …
A few days ago, Laura Hollis, a friend and former faculty colleague from my days as a professor and dean at the University of Illinois, contacted me. Today, Laura is a professor at Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana, where she teaches business law, among other subjects. She was …
Will 2024 be a Reprise of the disastrous 1876 Presidential Election? What a question, you might ask. But let’s look at what happened in 1876, and then you can decide. The political comparisons between 1876 to 2024 are striking. Let’s set the scene. In 1876 the Democrats controlled the House, …
In 2020, after Joe Biden announced that Kamala Harris would be his running mate, an ad hoc group of Democratic Party operatives sent an extraordinary memo instructing all news media outlets on how to cover Kamala. Here’s what the memo said, in part: “Our country — and your newsrooms — …