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...
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...
Children are not born hating others for their differences. Put children of various races in a room together and they will play without discrimination. Children have to be taught to hate and to use hateful...
"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...
Aaron Schock is one of the youngest members of the House of Representatives.? Specifically, the Illinois Republican is the third-youngest member of the chamber. He was elected in 2008 from a Peoria-area district, but his...
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...
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...
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...
Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), just elected to the Senate in November, is off to a rousing start. At the Women's March in Washington, D.C., she invoked her history of heroism in order to stand for...
Michael Lloyd Merichko thought it would be a good idea to march into his local Target store and stage what he called a "protest" over the store's recently implemented bathroom policy which says customers are...
Illinois voters really have it bad when it comes to politics. It’s one of those states where it’s actually true that both sides are terrible (though the right is still worse). I can say that...
Illinois Comptroller Leslie Munger (R) decided to delay the pay of state lawmakers until they play ball with Governor Bruce Rauner (R) and resolve the 10-month crisis to pass a budget plan like grownups. It's a creative...
Late Tuesday, the Chicago Police Department and the Cook County state's attorney's office released footage from a police car's dashboard camera from last fall showing a Chicago police officer emptying his pistol into a black...
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...
Just when you thought the story of the shooting of Laquan McDonald couldn't get more sordid, it did over the weekend. Chicago officials released the full incident report from McDonald's death in October 2014. It turns out that...
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...
A doctor in Chicago has been suspended over allegations that he makes his own unlicensed vaccines from ingredients as unlikely as cat saliva and vodka.
Investigators visited the surgery of Dr. Ming Te Lin in the suburb...
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...
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-elect Donald Trump may get to see pigs fly from the comfort of his tower in Chicago, Illinois. The businessman turned fascist politician threw the city under the bus, saying:
"I would do stop-and-frisk. I think...
