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Blogs, Bleader May 4, 2016
Friends of the Parks rejects Lucas Museum on any lakefront site, and other Chicago news

Also, CPS unveils new policy ensuring transgender students equal access to bathrooms and locker rooms.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: Did You Read __________?, News, spring weather, Friends of the Parks, Lucas Museum, George Lucas, Rahm Emanuel, McCormick Place, Juanita Irizarry, Chicago Public Schools, transgender rights, LGBTQ issues, Chicago Fire Department, City Hall, Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, race, political donations, Taped With Rabbi Doug, Ted Cruz, REO Speedwagon

Blogs, Bleader Apr 14, 2016
Confirm Merrick Garland? No way! No how! Never!

Republicans have their reasons to ignore Garland nomination. Sort of.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, News, Politics, Merrick Garland, Senator Mitch McConnell, Supreme Court, Republican Party, Ted Cruz

Blogs, Bleader Apr 6, 2016
On watching the GOP with horror—and delight

Twenty-six percent of Wisconsin Republicans said they'd be "concerned" and 12 percent "scared" by the prospect of Ted Cruz in the White House.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, News, Politics, Adam Hochschild, Spanish civil war, Mother Jones, Torkild Rieber, Koch brothers, Jane Meyer, Dark Money, Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Republican Party, Adam Gopnik, the New Yorker, CNN, Scott Walker

Blogs, Bleader Mar 15, 2016
Slideshow
The case against vote-shaming the black community

During election time, thinly veiled threats are used to keep the black community in line.
- By Evan F. Moore
- Tags: News, Politics, voting, black people, Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Chicago, Laquan McDonald, Anita Alvarez, 2016 elections, Slideshow

Blogs, Bleader Mar 15, 2016
A Trump delegate born in Uzbekistan stands by her man

"When you look at a man of that stature, it makes you feel safe, protected, like he'll take care of you," Lora Drobetsky says.
- By Steve Bogira
- Tags: News, Politics, Donald Trump, Lora Drobetsky, Illinois primary, delegates, Republican National Convention, Ashkenazi Jews, Uzbekistan, Trump Tower, Scranton, University of Scranton, Streeterville, The Art of the Deal, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, capitalism, socialism, Soviet Union, immigration, undocumented immigrants, Muslims, Islam, CNN, Carly Fiorina, Kent Gray, seventh congressional district, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, John Kasich

Blogs, Bleader Mar 14, 2016
Slideshow
Dispatches from Chicago's Trumpocalypse

Chicago was in the eye of the Trump storm on Friday.
- By Ryan Smith
- Tags: Politics, News, The Contrarian, Donald Trump, Trump Rally, UIC, Bernie Sanders, Ted Cruz, George Bush, Adolf Hitler, Laquan McDonald, Election 2016, Presidential Race, GOP, Republican, Slideshow

Blogs, Bleader Mar 11, 2016
UIC braces for controversial Donald Trump rally and protest and other Chicago news

Also, the Minnesota Vikings really hate the Chicago Bears.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, winter weather, spring weather, Donald Trump, University of Illinois at Chicago, Ted Cruz, Bruce Rauner, Illinois Republican Party, Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, Summit, Chicago Bears, Minneapolis, Minnesota Vikings, Kim Foxx, Anita Alvarez, Chicago River, Saint Patrick’s Day, Saint Patrick’s Day Parade

Blogs, Bleader Mar 9, 2016
The chilling details about Tyshawn Lee's alleged killer and other Chicago news

Also, a new poll shows strong support for Trump in the burbs, and retail is booming in the Loop.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, winter weather, spring weather, Tyshawn Lee, John Escalante, Chicago Police Department, Anita Alvarez, gun violence, gang violence, Dwright Boone-Doty, suburbs, Illinois primary, Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Cook County, downstate, photography, Loop, Magnificent Mile, retail, Sweetgreen

Blogs, Bleader Mar 8, 2016
An amazing idea for an amazing opera about me, Donald Trump

Dear composer John Adams, have I got an idea for you!
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Arts, Opera, News, Politics, Music, Humor, Donald Trump, John Adams, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, opera

Blogs, Bleader Mar 7, 2016
Lady Gaga jumps into Lake Michigan and other Chicago news

Also, remembering Nancy Reagan’s Chicago childhood.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, winter weather, Special Olympics Chicago, Chicago Polar Plunge, Lady Gaga, Taylor Kinney, Today Show, Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D., Chicago Med, Latin School, Nancy Reagan, Marshall Field’s, CTA, Red Line, Lakeview, bop, West Side, Donald Trump, UIC Pavilion, University of Illinois at Chicago, Ted Cruz, John Kasich

Blogs, Bleader Feb 17, 2016
Ted Cruz for Supreme Court

Cruz has a way of insulting the people he works with that would place him firmly in the Scalia tradition.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, News, Politics, Antonin Scalia, Ted Cruz, U.S. Supreme Court, John Kass, Mitch McConnell, Anthony Kennedy, New York Times, Donald Trump, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan

Blogs, Bleader Feb 8, 2016
The X-Files's obsession with UFOs seems quaint in the era of the super PAC

The conspiracy-minded premise of The X-Files has aged much worse than its cast.
- By Ryan Smith
- Tags: Arts, 90s Nostalgia, Paranormal, Small Screen, The X-Files, Chris Carter, Fox Mulder, Dana Scully, FOX News, Rush Limbaugh, Ted Cruz, Barack Obama, Joel McHale, Rupert Murdock, Edward Snowden, conspiracy theories

Blogs, Bleader Dec 17, 2015
The only American right we can't afford to lose, according to the GOP

Republican presidential candidates seem to think that First Amendment rights might have to go—so thank God for the Second.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, News, Politics, Bill of Rights, First Amendment, Second Amendment, Republican presidential candidates, Republican debate, Carly Fiorina, Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Chris Christie, ISIS

Blogs, Bleader Sep 23, 2015
John Kass presents a 'universal law' of government and liberty

Big government is always bad—except for when it isn't.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, News, Politics, John Kass, individual freedom, big government, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, chicago tribune, world war ii, supreme court

Blogs, Bleader Oct 4, 2014
A fussbudget marks up the Tribune for words we could do without

Not everyone the press calls "sheepish" is actually sheepish.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, News, Chicago Tribune, adjectives and adverbs, sheepish, sheepishly, disastrous, Obamacare, Brad Richards, Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Jonathan Bernstein, Ted Cruz, Google News, BBC

Columns & Opinion, On Media Dec 17, 2013
The world according to the Trib's Rex Huppke

Facts matter to Huppke as they do to all reporters, but only Huppke has written their obituary.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Michael Miner on Media, Chicago Tribune, Rex Huppke, Bethlehem Star, newspapers, alt-weeklies, Associated Press, AP, Catherine Cornell, facts, Allen West, AJR, American Journalism Review, Obamacare, government shutdown, Ted Cruz, websites, Canada, columns, columnists, University of Chicago, journalism, Steven Colbert, truthiness, John Kass, University of Missouri, syndicated columns

Columns & Opinion, On Media Oct 22, 2013
Our ignorance of our enemies might not be bliss, but it's close enough

Akbar Ahmed's new book, The Thistle and the Drone: How America's War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam, exposes a subtlety and complexity that ought to matter more.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Michael Miner on Media, Tea Party, Ted Cruz, U.S. Congress, Chicago Tribune, New York Times, Paul Krugman, common sense, freedom, John Kass, pundits, Steve Chapman, books, Akbar Ahmed, Malise Ruthven, New York Review of Books, war on terror, war, Barack Obama, tribal societies, Islam, David Halberstam, Frances Fitzgerald, Vietnam, drones, drone warfare

Blogs, Bleader Oct 22, 2013
Liberals need their own Cruz missile

Democrats won another battle last week but continue to lose the war.
- By Steve Bogira
- Tags: Politics, News, sequester, government shutdown, President Obama, George Packer, New Yorker, Fred Barnes, Wall Street Journal, Weekly Standard, Fox News, universal pre-K, Bob Woodward, Washington Post, Harry Reid, Budget Control Act, Bush tax cuts, Ted Cruz, Warren Buffet

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Also, CPS unveils new policy ensuring transgender students equal access to bathrooms and locker rooms.

Republicans have their reasons to ignore Garland nomination. Sort of.

Twenty-six percent of Wisconsin Republicans said they'd be "concerned" and 12 percent "scared" by the prospect of Ted Cruz in the White House.

During election time, thinly veiled threats are used to keep the black community in line.

"When you look at a man of that stature, it makes you feel safe, protected, like he'll take care of you," Lora Drobetsky says.

Chicago was in the eye of the Trump storm on Friday.

Also, the Minnesota Vikings really hate the Chicago Bears.

Also, a new poll shows strong support for Trump in the burbs, and retail is booming in the Loop.

Dear composer John Adams, have I got an idea for you!

Also, remembering Nancy Reagan’s Chicago childhood.

Cruz has a way of insulting the people he works with that would place him firmly in the Scalia tradition.

The conspiracy-minded premise of The X-Files has aged much worse than its cast.

Republican presidential candidates seem to think that First Amendment rights might have to go—so thank God for the Second.

Big government is always bad—except for when it isn't.

Not everyone the press calls "sheepish" is actually sheepish.

Facts matter to Huppke as they do to all reporters, but only Huppke has written their obituary.

Akbar Ahmed's new book, The Thistle and the Drone: How America's War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam, exposes a subtlety and complexity that ought to matter more.

Democrats won another battle last week but continue to lose the war.

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