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- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Jul 7, 2020
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Enemies of my enemy
Learning to love the never-Trump crowd at the Lincoln Project
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Jan 9, 2020
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Explaining the inexplicable
How to talk to children about legal weed, Donald Trump, and endless Middle Eastern wars
- Columns & Opinion, Opinion Dec 17, 2019
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2019’s biggest free press stories
Assange and Manning are being persecuted for speaking truth to power.
- Columns & Opinion, Opinion Oct 10, 2019
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Why I can't get excited about impeaching Trump
This doomed effort won’t even make for good TV.
- News & Politics, Feature Dec 10, 2018
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The problem with the “public health” approach to ideological violence
The Countering Violent Extremism program is meant to stop terrorism and hate crimes before they happen, but critics say it’s yet another excuse to spy on Muslims.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 5, 2018
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Who's that speaking for the Sun-Times this time?
The legacy of the Sun-Times—what's that?
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 18, 2018
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Staffer Ryan Smith says goodbye to the Reader
Social media editor Ryan Smith has some parting words about politics and his three-and-a-half-year tenure at the Chicago Reader.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 6, 2018
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Daniel Biss on Abu Ghraib, how to resist the urge to check out at the words ‘pension crisis,’ and what he's learned from Michael Madigan
The Illinois gubernatorial candidate talks about the arc of progressive politics and what's required to bring change to the state capitol.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 9, 2017
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Former president Barack Obama reports for Cook County jury duty, and other Chicago news
Also, Chance the Rapper slams Emanuel's plan to build $95 million police training academy.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 6, 2017
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An Iraqi-American professor remembers his complicated midwestern youth
DePaul’s Laith Saud describes his American life during a seemingly endless war.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 4, 2017
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What will a Ben Carson-led HUD mean for the CHA?
The Chicago Housing Authority has more autonomy than other local agencies, but that won’t totally protect it from major Congressional budget cuts.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 7, 2016
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CPD top cop: Only ‘certain parts of the city’ are violent, and other Chicago news
Also, Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants Governor Bruce Rauner to publicly support Chicago's sanctuary city status.
- Columns & Opinion, Identity & Culture Dec 6, 2016
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Let’s ditch the Electoral College for the sake of minority voters
It might help bring disenfranchised or disillusioned voters back into the fold.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Nov 30, 2016
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Congressman Luis Gutierrez says the fight against Trump is just beginning
Gutierrez plans to boycott Trump’s inauguration and fight any efforts at mass deportation.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 23, 2016
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Will a Trump DOJ quash Chicago police reforms?
What a Jeff Sessions-lead Department of Justice could mean for the ongoing probe into CPD
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Jan 14, 2016
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Brontë, Desert Cool, and ten more theatrical shows to see now
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 3, 2015
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This is Rahm Emanuel's Katrina moment
The cover-up of Laquan McDonald’s death is proof that Emanuel and his allies don’t care about black people.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Dec 17, 2014
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How investment bankers told Rahm that class size matters
Mayor Emanuel's deal to fund preschool may give away too much money, but at least it shows what's needed to help poor kids.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Jan 14, 2014
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When Obama needed public-access TV to reach voters
A 2003 interview captures the future president explaining how he's a "populist."
- Arts & Culture, Comedy Critic's Choice Jan 11, 2014
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James Adomian makes an impression
Actually, he makes many of them. The stand-up's imitative prowess—celebrities to cartoon villains to Gary Busey—is his greatest means of comedy.
- Columns & Opinion, On Media Nov 19, 2013
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The undoing of a president's mystique
What would have happened to JFK if he'd been scrutinized by the media in the same way as Obama?
- Columns & Opinion, On Media Sep 24, 2013
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The press has been as hard on Obama's stance on Syria as the public
But a couple of the president's most persistent local critics have showed him unexpected love.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 3, 2013
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High-stakes standardized testing: accountability, or inherent corruption?
Business leaders as well as educators have been tarnished by the scandal in Atlanta.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 12, 2013
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The State of the Union: Listen carefully
There's a place for pathos in presidential speeches, but it's running amok.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 12, 2013
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Sammy Sosa, Lenny Skutnik, and the State of the Union
Sosa made it into an elite SOTU club, if not the HOF.
