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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
It's bad enough to have Q-Anon adherents like Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene occupying a seat on the racist "America First" caucus in the hallowed House of Representatives.
It seems inconceivable there are members of Congress...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Senator Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) faced Representative Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) in a debate last night, and he decided to go full racist and question her family's military service.
Kirk Goes Low ... Again
Sen. Kirk is battling to...
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...
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...
