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Music, The Listener Feb 15, 2021
Video
James Brown’s “Funky President (People It’s Bad)” is unfortunately relevant again

This Presidents’ Day, dance away your disillusionment with a 1974 funk classic about beating political corruption.
- By Jamie Ludwig
- Tags: The Listener, James Brown, Funky President (People It’s Bad), Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Martin Luther King Jr., Presidents’ Day, Washington’s Birthday, impeachment, Trump, Andrew Jackson, Video

Columns & Opinion, On Politics Oct 21, 2020
Get me rewrite!

Aaron Sorkin rewrites Chicago history to help beat Trump.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: On Politics, Aaron Sorkin, Chicago 7, Abbie Hoffman, Richard J. Daley, Richard Schultz, The Trial of the Chicago 7, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, Vietnam War, QAnon

Columns & Opinion, On Politics Jul 7, 2020
Enemies of my enemy

Learning to love the never-Trump crowd at the Lincoln Project
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: On Politics, Donald Trump, the Lincoln Project, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, John McCain, Neshoba County, Never Trumpers, Confederate flag, states’ rights, Willie Horton, Lee Atwater, Jimmy Carter, Putin, Stalin, Lenin, Joe Biden, Richard Nixon, Karl Rove, John Kerry

Columns & Opinion, On Politics Mar 4, 2020
Panic peddlers

Centrist Dems are using the 1972 election to scare voters away from Bernie.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: On Politics, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, James Carville, Rahm Emanuel, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, 1972 presidential campaign, Richard J. Daley, Vito Marzullo

News & Politics, Feature Oct 23, 2018
Slow Burn re-creates the daily barrage of information during the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal

And it asks the question, which details from the current administration will still matter 20 years from now?
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Feature, Slow Burn, Leon Neyfakh, Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, Richard Nixon, Watergate, impeachment, Slate, Jenn White, Rick Perlstein, political scandal, Watergate, Zippergate

Blogs, Bleader Sep 4, 2018
I guess we won’t have Rahm to kick around anymore

In a surprise decision, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has announced he won't seek a third term in office.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: News, Politics, Whoa, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago, Richard Nixon, Mick Dumke, the Hideout, Christian Mitchell, Sameena Mustafa, mental health clinics, NATO, Barack Obama, presidential endorsement

Blogs, Bleader Jun 29, 2018
Sy Hersh on his rough-and-tumble Chicago past: ‘At some point I realized I was in a tyranny’

An interview with the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, who discusses his Chicago origin story and more.
- By Ryan Smith
- Tags: Media, News, Politics, Seymour Hersh, Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, Dick Cheney, Barack Obama, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Tribune, City News Bureau, CIA, Vietnam, Mai Lai, Martin Luther King, Mahalia Jackson, Chicago Sun-Times, New York Times, Donald Trump, Reporter, journalism, Eugene McCarthy

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Apr 26, 2018
Frost/Nixon depicts the thoughtfulness and grace of . . . Richard Nixon?

Oh, the good old days when a former president admitted to criminal complicity on prime-time television!
- By Dmitry Samarov
- Tags: Theater Review, Frost-Nixon, Redtwist Theatre, Richard Nixon, David Frost, Peter Morgan, Scott Weinstein, Brian Perry, Brandon Wardell, Adam Bitterman, Jeffrey D. Kmiec, television interview, presidential corruption

Blogs, Bleader Feb 9, 2018
Five must-see lo-o-o-ong films

Five very long film masterpieces.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Film, Foreign, History, On Video, Politics, University of Chicago, Lav Diaz, The Woman Who Left, Logan Center for the Arts, Wang Bing, documentary, Crude Oil, Gray Center for the Arts and Inquiry, Star Spangled to Death, Ken Jacobs, Jerry Sims, Flaming Creatures, Jack Smith, George Bush, Richard Nixon, Nelson Rockefeller, Al Jolson, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Les Vampires, Louis Feuillade, Irma Vep, Musidora, Judex, D.W. Griffith, Fritz Lang, Luis Buñuel, Satantango, Bela Tarr, Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Shoah, Claude Lanzmann, Holocaust, Out 1, Out 1: Noli Me Tangere, Jacques Rivette, Honré de Balzac, History of the Thirteen, Juliet Berto, Francoise Fabian, Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Michel Lonsdale, Bulle Ogier

News & Politics, Feature May 16, 2017
The secret history of Illinois’s rent control prohibition

How conservatives preempted rent control before the public was ready to talk about it.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: Feature, News, Politics, Rent control, Rent Control Preemption Act, Will Guzzardi, eviction, gentrification, Logan Square, ALEC, American Legislative Exchange Council, Illinois General Assembly, Illinois Realtors, Jan Schakowsky, Louis Lang, Koch brothers, Bronzeville, Kenwood Oakland Community Organization, Jawanza Malone, J.W. Mason, Chuck Hartke, James “Pate” Philip, Lee Daniels, Michael Madigan, Tom Walsh, Greg St. Aubin, Frank Avellone, Lawyers Committee for Better Housing, Richard Nixon, price controls

Blogs, Bleader May 11, 2017
Video
Local FBI chief under consideration for interim FBI director job, and other Chicago news

Also, a mayoral aide says that CPS needs $596 rather than $129 million to finish 2016-2017 school year.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, James Comey, Donald Trump, Michael Anderson, Chicago Public Schools, Rahm Emanuel, Carole Brown, Mike Quigley, Richard Nixon, Russia, Blair Holt, Annette Nance-Holt, CTA, gun violence, honorary street signs, Julian High School, Proco Joe Moreno, gentrification, Chicago Housing Initiative, Somos Logan Square, Taylor Gourmet, restaurant openings, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 10, 2017
In firing Comey, Trump pulls a Nixon—again

By sacking Comey, Trump shows a defiance of FBI investigators that even Nixon didn't dare.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: News, Politics, History, Donald Trump, James Comey, FBI, Mark Felt, Watergate, All the President's Men, Richard Nixon, J. Edgar Hoover, Peter Roskam

News & Politics, Politics Mar 28, 2017
Chris Hayes says America’s founders would be offended by the modern police state

In his new book A Colony in a Nation, the journalist and MSNBC host compares current-day policing in cities like Chicago to British rule just before the American Revolution.
- By Ryan Smith
- Tags: Politics, A Colony in a Nation, All In With Chris Hayes, American Revolution, Barack Obama, Benjamin Franklin, cannabis, Chris Hayes, Donald Trump, Jeff Sessions, John Adams, Laquan McDonald, marijuana legalization, MSNBC, police state, policing, racial politics, Rahm Emanuel, revolution, Richard Nixon, stop and frisk, Thomas Jefferson

Blogs, Bleader Mar 6, 2017
Donald Trump is a one-man Watergate

A look back at the classic characters of that ur-political scandal reveals some surprising similarities to the current president.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, News, Politics, History, Donald Trump, Watergate scandal, Charles Colson, John Dean, Maureen Dean, Martha Mitchell, Richard Nixon, Spiro Agnew, Southern Poverty Law Center, ACLU, LA Times, Washington Post, Encyclopedia of Arkansas, Julian Zelizer

Columns & Opinion, On Politics Feb 20, 2017
How does Trump stack up against America’s greatest presidents?

Historians surveyed by C-SPAN ranked Lincoln first, Nixon 28th, and Buchanan last.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: On Politics, News, Presidents Day, Donald Trump, Richard Nixon, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, James Buchanan, C-SPAN, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Judith Miller, history

Blogs, Bleader Jan 20, 2017
Getting under Trump’s skin, verse by satirical verse

Chicago Tribune columnist Mary Schmich is effectively skewering the new president with doggerel.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, News, Poetry, Politics, Mary Schmich, Donald Trump, Chicago Tribune, poetry, doggerel, John Lewis, Facebook, Herblock, Richard Nixon

News & Politics, Politics Jan 18, 2017
Bill Ayers believes opposition to Trump should come from the people—not the Democratic Party

The author and former Weatherman says modern revolutionaries also don't have to look to the 1960s for inspiration.
- By Ryan Smith
- Tags: Politics, Donald Trump, Richard Nixon, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Weather Underground, Weatherman, Weathermen, Betsy DeVos, Black Lives Matters, Abraham Lincoln, Occupy Wall Street, Standing Rock, Democratic Party, Fox News

Blogs, Bleader Jan 5, 2017
The Russian hack was Trump's Nixon moment

Newly discovered notes from an aide to Richard Nixon prove the former president connived with South Vietnam to win the 1968 presidential election.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: News, History, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, LBJ, Hubert Humphrey, 1968 presidential election, Vietnam War, Anna Chennault, Gary Sick. William Casey, Ronald Reagan, Iran, hostages, President Putin, Rahm Emanuel, Everett Dirksen, Tricky Dick

Columns & Opinion, On Politics Feb 24, 2016
Why can't Mayor Rahm be less like Bill Clinton and more like Bernie Sanders?

Emanuel has governed by taking a page from the 90s centrist’s playbook.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Ben Joravsky on Politics, News, Rahm Emanuel, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, the View, George McGovern, David Maraniss, First in His Class, Richard Nixon

Blogs, Bleader Dec 22, 2014
Best Films of 2014, number six: Last Days in Vietnam

J.R. Jones counts down his favorite films of 2014. Today at number six: Last Days in Vietnam.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Rory Kennedy, Last Days in Vietnam, Stuart Herrington, Paris Peace Accords, Richard Nixon, American Experience, Gerald Ford, Ron Nessen, Graham Martin, Richard Armitage, John Kerry, Vietnam War, best movies of 2014

Arts & Culture, Book Review Jul 31, 2014
Recommended
Rick Perlstein crosses The Invisible Bridge between Nixon and Reagan

In a new book, the Chicago historian and Nation writer continues to chart America's rightward shift.
- By Mick Dumke
- Tags: Book Review, books, Watergate, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Rick Perlstein, history, conservatism, The Nation, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, 1970s, McCarthyism, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Nov 8, 2012
Segregation and Obama's second term

It's never politically expedient for a president to fight segregation
- By Steve Bogira
- Tags: Segregation, Politics, News, Richard Nixon, ProPublica, Nikole Hannah-Jones, racial segregation, desegregation, integration, Housing and Urban Development, George Romney, Myron Orfield, school segregation, Bill Clinton, Elizabeth Julian, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, McCormick Place

Blogs, Bleader Nov 6, 2012
Escape to Canada?

Dreading the election? I'm not.
- By Steve Bogira
- Tags: Election 2012, Dread Week, Politics, News, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Canada, presidential election, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Occupy movement, Congress, Supreme Court

Blogs, Bleader Oct 24, 2012
Hey, teachers: you should have voted for del Valle!

What would have happened had we elected Miguel del Valle and not Rahm Emanuel as our mayor?
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Politics, News, Ken Davis, Miguel del Valle, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Richard Nixon, George McGovern, Gil Scot Heron

Blogs, Bleader Sep 25, 2012
Video
Video Drone: Beatles Stories

An anecdotal new documentary lets you meet the Beatles, over and over again
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Television, Film, Music, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon, Seth Swirsky, Beatles Stories, Fred Seaman, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Los Angeles Rams, Fred Seaman, Richard Nixon, Paul McCartney, Brian Wilson, Rubber Soul, Davy Jones, Monkees, The Ed Sullivan Show, Mitch Weissman, Beatlemania, Susanna Hoffs, Bangles, Ringo Starr, Jon Voight, Midnight Cowboy, George Martin, Norman Smith, Klaus Voorman, George Harrison, May Pang, rock music, DVD releases, Video

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