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...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
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...
Who is Anita? Well, the Anita behind the passionate hashtag #ByeAnita, is none other than Chicago’s Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez. Why people on Twitter – and the people of Cook County – are...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In 2012, an FBI sting led to the arrest of the then 18-year-old, Adel Daoud. Daoud was charged with an attempted terrorist attack when he planted a bomb near a downtown Chicago nightclub. Now 22, Daoud...
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...
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...
It's everyone's worst nightmare: You're touring a university at 17 years old, and then you get hauled into the police station along with two others and interrogated in connection with a sexual assault. You can't...
