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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

Film, Movie Review Oct 19, 2020
The Trial of the Chicago 7 asks: What is worth standing up for?

Aaron Sorkin’s new drama shows what happens when it’s time to fight and “the whole world is watching.”
- By Arionne Nettles
- Tags: Movie Review, The Trial of the Chicago 7, Aaron Sorkin, Netflix, DNC, Vietnam War, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, John Froines, Lee Weiner, Bobby Seale, Sacha Baron Cohen, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Eddie Redmayne

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Aug 29, 2018
Writers Theatre’s Vietgone brings the war home to Glencoe

But then slathers it in cuteness
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, Writers Theatre, Vietgone, Glencoe, Students for a Democratic Society, Vietnam War, Qui Nguyen

Arts & Culture, Festival Apr 26, 2018
Getting ‘Graphic!’ at the Chicago Humanities Festival

A preview of four talks this weekend
- By Julia Thiel, Brianna Wellen, Tanner Howard, and Jordannah Elizabeth
- Tags: Festival, Chicago Humanities Festival, Thi Bui, Vietnam war, The Best We Could Do, graphic novel, Patricia Nguyen, The Bachelor, Amy Kaufman, Ali Barthwell, Bachelor Nation, UnReal, reality TV, Alex Lichtenstein, Andrew Lichtenstein, Marked Unmarked Remembered, Harriet Tubman, Haymarket Martyrs’ Memorial, Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads, Elizabeth Weil, Claire Wamariya, Oprah Winfrey Show, Rwanda

Blogs, Bleader May 16, 2017
Terrorist to some, hero to others, Oscar López Rivera will be honored in Chicago this week

The Puerto Rican nationalist comes home to Humboldt Park after 35 years in federal prison.
- By Alex V. Hernandez
- Tags: News, Politics, Humboldt Park, Puerto Rico, Barack Obama, Paseo Boricua, National Boricua Human Rights Network, Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña, FALN, Oscar López Rivera, Jose López, Vietnam War, Police, People’s Law Office

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

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature May 12, 2016
Little Shop of Horrors, Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf, and ten more new stage shows

A monstrous revival and a collaboration between Writers Theatre and Second City are among this week's theater and performance best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, American Beauty Shop, Dana Lynn Formby, Chicago Dramatists, Megan Shuchman, And Now You Know Everything About Laurel Krabacher, Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf: A Parody, Writers Theatre, Second City, Tim Sniffen, Stuart Carden, Michael Halberstam, Our Town, Olivia Bagan, Double Text, KoolAid Mix, 99 Problems, 90s parodies, Hannah Starr, Joe Janes, American Blues Theater, Little Shop of Horrors, Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, Austin Cook, Dara Cameron, Jonathan Berry, The News Is Now, iO Theater, Cody Melcher, Chris Hauser, Once in a Lifetime, Sarah Goeden, Justine C. Turner, Nicole Bloomsmith, George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, Damon Kiely, Shirley Laura, Keith Walker, Vietnam war, Women's Army Corps, Victoria Alvarez-Chacon, Kat McDonnell, A Piece of My Heart, Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble, Reality Ever After, Under the Gun Theater, Real Housewives, Seedfolks, Paul Fleischman, Cleveland, Gibb Street, Sonja Parks, Anna Deavere Smith, Chicago Slam Works, This Great Nation, Much Enduring, Felix Mayes, Teagan Walsh-Davis, J.W. Basilo

News & Politics, Feature Jan 18, 2016
What the Van Dyke murder trial judge has in common with Laquan McDonald

Vincent Gaughan posed a public danger one morning when he was 28. But the police response was far different from Jason Van Dyke's.
- By Steve Bogira
- Tags: Feature, News, Vincent Gaughan, Laquan McDonald, Jason Van Dyke, Leighton Criminal Court Building, LeRoy Martin Jr., R. Kelly, Brown’s Chicken massacre, Lincoln Park, University of Illinois, U.S. Army, Fort Sill Oklahoma, Vietnam War, Bronze Star, DePaul University, William Mullen, Father John Richardson, Charles Adamson, Cook County public defender's office, Chicago Police Department, Cook County State's Attorney's Office, Judicial Performance Commission, Chicago Council of Lawyers, American Legion, Miami Vice, Crime Story

Blogs, Bleader Jun 3, 2015
Video
Fifty years after LBJ challenged the nation, the rights of African-Americans remain unfulfilled

"We've got to find a way to let Negroes get what most white folks already have," Lyndon Johnson told his speechwriter in 1965.
- By Steve Bogira
- Tags: Poverty, Segregation, Politics, News, Lyndon Johnson, LBJ, Howard University, To Fulfill These Rights, Richard Goodwin, civil rights movement, Voting Rights Act, Civil Rights Act of 1964, racial segregation, racial discrimination, slavery, poverty, War on Poverty, family structure, single-parent families, Dr. Martin Luther King, Douglas Kiker, New York Herald Tribune, Vietnam War, Watts riot, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 20, 2015
Video
Have drones taken all the ecstasy out of warfare?

On drones and chivalry
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, News, war, chivalry, drone warfare, Good Kill, Grounded, Vietnam war, William Stark, Jack Van Loan, Ethan Hawke, Anne Hathaway, Curt Bennett, Ender's Game, The Face of Battle, John Keegan, Video

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

Blogs, Bleader Nov 11, 2014
In never-ending wars, the U.S. is on a losing streak

America keeps losing wars—without effect.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, News, World War I, Germany, Veterans Day, Vietnam war, Afghanistan war, Iraq war, Daniel Bolger, New York Times

Blogs, Bleader Jun 11, 2014
Breaking news: Chicago doesn't like Mayor Rahm!

National pundits are coming to the startling realization that the city doesn't love Rahm Emanuel like they do.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Politics, News, Rahm Emanuel, Richard M. Daley, Chicago, mayor, Maggie Haberman, Politico, New York Times, David Brooks, school closings, Senator George Aiken, President Lyndon Baines Johnson, Vietnam War, David Bernstein, Noah Isackson, Bobby Hull

Blogs, Bleader Jun 3, 2014
Negotiating with the Taliban for a POW's release? It's complicated

The deal to free Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for five Taliban kingpins involves far more than an either/or choice.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, News, Brock for Broglio trade, Tonkin Gulf Resolution, Vietnam war, Vietnam POWs, Taliban, Eric Zorn, Chicago Tribune, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, Phil Kadner, Chicago Sun-Times, Edward Snowden

Blogs, Bleader Apr 29, 2014
Pundits say presidents who won't lead the country into war have trouble leading it anywhere

It's in America's nature to be at war because freedom always needs defending.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, Politics, News, Lyndon Johnson, Barack Obama, Vietnam war, war in Iraq, Vladimir Putin, Russia, 1964 civil rights act, John F. Kennedy

Blogs, Bleader Jan 17, 2014
What moved LBJ to target poverty?

Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty was more than a play for votes.
- By Steve Bogira
- Tags: Poverty, Politics, News, Lyndon Johnson, LBJ, War on Poverty, State of the Union address, John F. Kennedy, JFK, Kennedy assassination, Chicago Tribune, socialism, Barry Goldwater, free enterprise, New York Times, David Lawrence, Los Angeles Times, Doris Fleeson, Boston Globe, Michael Harrington, The Other America, Dwight MacDonald, New Yorker, Richard Reeves, President Kennedy: Profile of Power, Richard Scammon, Census Bureau, Robert A. Caro, The Passage of Power, Walter Heller, Council of Economic Advisers, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, Head Start, Social Security, Vietnam War

Blogs, Bleader Aug 23, 2013
Audio
Fifty years after "I Have a Dream": Time for a real War on Poverty

The richest nation on earth could afford to win a war on poverty, Lyndon Johnson asserted nearly 50 years ago.
- By Steve Bogira
- Tags: Poverty, Segregation, Politics, News, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Martin Luther King Jr., Lyndon Johnson, LBJ, poverty, segregation, War on Poverty, Head Start, Medicaid, Medicare, Food Stamp Act, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Patrick Sharkey, Stuck in Place, Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Civil Rights movement, Vietnam War, Rabbinical Assembly, Promise Academy, Choice Neighborhoods, Hope VI, Audio

News & Politics, Feature Aug 21, 2013
Video
Fifty years later, participants in the March on Washington still hoping for justice

Organizers of the Chicago contingent in the 1963 March on Washington say it's time for another movement.
- By Steve Bogira and Mick Dumke
- Tags: Feature, history, 1963, civil rights, March on Washington, Washington, DC, Timuel Black, Martin Luther King Jr., segregation, Don Rose, Richard J. Daley, South Side, schools, Negro American Labor Council, NALC, A. Philip Randolph, jobs, violence, nonviolence, Montgomery bus boycott, Birmingham, Alabama, 4th Ward, Chicago Defender, integration, desegregation, organized labor, 63 boycott, minimum wage, federal jobs programs, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, freedom trains, Chicago Tribune, James Ritch, Hyde Park, The New York Times, "I Have a Dream" speech, hope, Chicago Sun-Times, demonstrations, school boycotts, neighborhoods, poverty, justice, civil rights laws, Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, Vietnam War, riots, activism, activists, Jane Byrne, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 28, 2013
Revisiting Walter Hill's 1981 quasi-war movie Southern Comfort

The director of The Warriors has become so alien to contemporary American cinema that his movies feel new again.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: On Video, Shots Fired, Film, Walter Hill, Southern Comfort, The Driver, The Warriors, Bullet to the Head, Doc Films, Chicago Cinema Society, Roger Ebert, Vietnam War, Johnny Handsome, Brion James, war movies, John Carpenter, Samuel Fuller, Neveldine/Taylor

News & Politics, Chicagoans Jan 4, 2013
This week's Chicagoan: Dennis Dobrydnia, Vietnam-era vet

"They just spent a year in a place most 'em damn near almost died in, and now they’re gonna take orders from a guy who’s gonna make sure they’re sweeping the floors."
- By Anne Ford
- Tags: Chicagoans, Columbia, South Carolina, veterans, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, post-traumatic stress disorder, veterans, Da Nang, Vietnam war, Dennis Dobrydnia, Vietnam veterans, Vietnam-era veterans, National University of Health Sciences

Blogs, Bleader Sep 16, 2010
Toronto International Film Fest Review: Tabloid

J.R. Jones reviews Errol Morris's Tabloid, screening as part of the Toronto International Film Festival.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Toronto International Film Festival, Errol Morris, Mr. Death The Rise and Fall of Fred A Leuchter Jr, Vietnam war, The Fog of War Eleven Lessons From the Life of Robert S. MacNamara, Abu Ghraib, Standard Operating Procedure, Joyce McKinney, Gates of Heaven, Vernon Florida, Showtime, Mormonism, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, film festivals, documentaries, movies

Blogs, Bleader Sep 14, 2009
TIFF Review: The Most Dangerous Man in America

A new documentary profiles the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Daniel Ellsberg, The Most Dangerous Man in America, Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon, Patricia Marx, Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith, RAND Corporation, Robert McNamara, Lyndon B. Johnson, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Vietnam War, Patricia Marx, Howard Zinn, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, New York Times, George W. Bush, Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, Terrorist Finance Tracking Program, John Dean, First Amendment, national security, Toronto Interntionsl Film Festival, film festivals, documentaries, movies

Blogs, Bleader Jul 24, 2009
Video
Walter Cronkite, Jon Stewart, and trust
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Media, Jon Stewart, Daily Show, Walter Cronkite, Tet Offensive, Brian Williams, Katie Couric, Charlie Gibson, Barry McCaffrey, Wayne Downing, David Barstow, media-industrial complex, Donald Rumsfeld, Iraq War, Vietnam War, network news, evening news, NBC, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, Ashleigh Banfield, television news, cable news, journalism, media, Video

Film, Movie Review Jul 9, 2009
Video
Recent History

The Hurt Locker: the first post-Iraq Iraq war movie
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow, U.S. Army, Baghdad, Iraq war, Venice film festival, Vietnam war, Platoon Oliver Stone, Full Metal Jacket, Mark Boal, Paul Haggis, In the Valley of Elah, The Deer Hunter, Coming Home, Afghanistan, Jeremy Renner, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 26, 2008
On Eartha Kitt and Harold Pinter

Reflecting on the deaths of Harold Pinter and Eartha Kitt.
- By Albert Williams
- Tags: Performing Arts, Onstage, Arts, Iraq War, Eartha Kitt, Harold Pinter, Nobel Prize for Literature, Vietnam War, Lady Bird Johnson, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill

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