"Sometimes doing the right thing means speaking up, even when it's hard." That's what 12-year-old Jade Lee said she learned from her experience winning an essay contest called "Do the Write Thing," an ...

A Chicago student's essay on youth violence landed her a trip to the nation's capital. Jade Lee, a student going into the 8th grade at CICS Prairie in Roseland, recently returned from a trip to ...

My colleague Anton Ford appears to misunderstand both the Chicago Principles, and their application to the recent protest encampment on our campus (“The Chicago Principles Are Undemocratic,” The ...

In our annual photography issue, we usually showcase multiple essays from different photographers. This year, we dedicated all that space to a single feature by Daniel Shea. Last year, Shea ...

This past Sunday, the front page of the New York Times Book Review ran a caustic essay by DePaul University professor Rachel Shteir about "poor Chicago." Disguising it as a review of three new volumes ...

In their attempt to cover nearly every homicide, reporters often boil people’s lives down to just a few details, often defining them by their deaths. Credit: Carolina Sanchez for the Trace This story ...

In a year of banner essay collections by women—Leslie Jamison’s Empathy Exams and Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist among them—accomplished playwright Sarah Ruhl (The Clean House, The Vibrator Play) has ...