Unidentified Department of Homeland Security (HHS) and U.S. Marshals Service officers have been given carte-blanche to terrorize peaceful protesters and anyone simply walking down the street in Portland, Oregon.
Under the guise of "protecting federal property,"...
There is no shortage of encouragement and benevolence all around us during this global pandemic.
People get it we are all in this together.
No one embodies this sentiment more than those on the front line, like...
Milton Mayer (1928–29) was a journalist, reporter for the Associated Press, the Chicago Evening Post, the Chicago American, and The Progressive.
In 1955, he published a seminal work titled They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 in which he analyzes how Hitler came to...
Last month, Donald Trump instilled fear in thousands after announcing mass Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids and round-ups of undocumented Americans.
Then in a classic reality show-style bait and switch to appear bi-partisan, he abruptly...
Exactly one day after the first anniversary of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., Donald Trump declared a national emergency.
Since the Parkland shooting, almost 1,200 children have fallen to gun violence.
2018 holds...
There's a saying: "Not all Republicans are racists, but if someone is racist, he's probably a Republican."
While it would be unfair to stereotype all Republicans as racists, the GOP has not exactly been the party...
A Nazi is running for the House of Representatives.
In Tuesday's Illinois primary, 70-year-old Arthur Jones, running unopposed, secured the Republican nomination to represent the Chicago-area's third congressional district.
If he beats his democratic opponent, incumbent Rep. Dan Lipinski,...
Last week, Congressman Luis Gutierrez of Illinois turned a lot of heads when he walked out of the House chamber while Donald Trump was still giving his State of the Union address. It initially looked...
Still angry that he got caught making his comments about immigrants from "shithole" countries, Donald Trump thought it would be a good idea to spend part of Monday attacking Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), one of...
One of the most striking anecdotes of the 2016 presidential campaign was the large number of ancestrally Republican newspapers who refused to endorse Donald Trump. In many cases, they broke decades-long traditions to either endorse...
"I'm so tired of racism, bro."
According to Chicago police dashcam footage, this is what Tyler Lumar said outside the clinic he had just left in a fury after a doctor accused Lumar of reselling his...
One of the many great things about former President Barack Obama is his incredibly sharp sense of humor. As he proved time and again at the White House Correspondent's Dinner, the man can flat-out tell...
In a time when our electoral process is under attack like never before, it's encouraging to see some local and state governments doing right by the citizens they represent.
The 2016 presidential election demonstrated the lowest...
Samantha Heaton works as a waitress at Buffalo Wild Wings in Rockport Illinois. She is hardworking and like many other waitresses earns minimum wage. Most servers in this country depend on tips for a living.
Well imagine...
Over the last decade, we've seen a disturbing number of cases in which the defendants are manifestly guilty, only to have their cases implode due to particularly outrageous prosecutorial misconduct. For instance, the New Orleans cops...
The latest entry in "How Not To Handle A Crisis" comes from United Airlines. On Sunday, the world's third-largest airline came under well-deserved fire after a passenger was dragged screaming and bloodied from a supposedly...
Chicago Public Schools (CPS) have taken a stand against President Donald Trump's war on immigration by informing principals at their various school districts not to allow United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials inside...
Abraham Lincoln is a mythic figure in American history. Every schoolchild encounters tales of “Honest Abe” studying by candlelight, working to keep the country united, and abolishing slavery – only to die by an assassin’s...
President Donald Trump promised to release his taxes once he was elected. It should come as no surprise that he won't follow through with that promise, though. We're dealing with a man that does what...
Donald Trump is posting all kinds of crazy stuff on his social media accounts. He posted this on his Facebook yesterday morning:
He was lying about those numbers. The Chicago Police Department says that there have only...
