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Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jan 18, 2019
I Call My Brothers explores the anxiety of being labeled ‘other‘

An Arab-Swede navigates the consequences of a car bomb in Stockholm.
- By Irene Hsiao
- Tags: Theater Review, I Call My Brothers, Interrobang Theatre Project, Rivendell Theatre, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Salar Ardebili, Abhi Shrestha, Sweden, terrorism, Stockholm bombings

News & Politics, Feature Dec 10, 2018
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.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: Feature, News, Countering Violent Extremism, CVE, national security, counterterrorism, surveillance, Muslims, Islam, profiling, racial profiling, terrorism, extremism, ideological violence, Arab American Action Network, Muhammad Sankari, Barack Obama, Obama administration, Donald Trump, Trump administration, Patriot Act, 9/11, September 11, ACLU, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, FBI, COINTELPRO, Operation Vulgar Betrayal, Katharine Gorka, Islamophobia, Life After Hate, white supremacy, white supremacists, Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority, ICJIA, Junaid Afeef, Targeted Violence Prevention Program, Nicole Nguyen, UIC, Stevan Weine, Brennan Center for Justice, New York University, Bridge Initiative, Georgetown University, Kristin Sekerci, public health, George W. Bush

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jun 1, 2018
Aguijón's Brutality reveals the banality of violence in contemporary America

And, in the process, examines how people cope with trauma—or don't.
- By Jack Helbig
- Tags: Theater Review, Brutality, Aguijon Theater, Gustavo Ott, Rosario Vargas, Erica Cruz Hernandez, Ana Santo-Sanchez, Pulse nightclub, terrorism, mass shooting, trauma

Blogs, Bleader Nov 6, 2017
Kanye West returns to Chicago, makes first live appearance in nearly a year, and other news

Also, the Chicago Police Department discredits terrorism plot rumors.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Alicia Tate-Nadeau, Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, Chicago Police Department, Chicagoist, debt rating, DNAinfo, DNAinfo Chicago, gun violence, Harold's Chicken Shack, Illinois, Joe Ricketts, Kanye West, Kid Cudi, labor unions, Life of Pablo, Michael Halberstam, OEMC, Office of Emergency Management and Communications, Rahm Emanuel, Standard & Poor's, Starbucks, TD Ameritrade, terrorism, unions, Writers Theatre

Blogs, Bleader Nov 2, 2017
Video
Emanuel: Chicago will ‘learn something’ from Manhattan terror attack, and other news

Also, the Obamas would rather have a conversation with fans than take a selfie.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, Rahm Emanuel, terrorism, New York City, OEMC, terror attack, Nancy Grace, Kenneka Jenkins, Rosemont, Dr. Oz Show, selfies, Michelle Obama, Barack Obama, Obama Foundation Summit, Citadel, University of Chicago, Ken Griffin, Chicago Police Department, Kevin Clewer, unsolved mysteries, cold cases, unsolved murders, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico, Marc Anthony, Gloria Estefan, Jennifer Lopez, National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 1, 2017
Video
Villa Park man arrested for allegedly raising money to send ISIS fighters from the U.S. to Syria, and other Chicago

Also, the family of man shot to death by a CPD officer in 2011 is asking for a special prosecutor.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, Dilshod Khusanov, ISIS, Islamic State, ISIL, Uzbekistan, al-Nusrah Front, terrorism, Chicago Police Department, Flint Farmer, Gildardo Sierra, Anita Alvarez, Independent Police Review Authority, Eddie Johnson, Rahm Emanuel, Bruce Rauner, Wrigley Field, Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee Brewers, Blind Barber, restaurant openings, Video

News & Politics, Feature Apr 20, 2017
After Trump's air strikes, a Syrian asylum seeker remembers revolution and imprisonment in Damascus

Abu Shadi, who survived torture by the Assad regime, says he feels torn between Trump and an apathetic world.
- By Sarah Conway
- Tags: Feature, Syria, Syrian asylum seekers, Muslim, Islam, war on terror, Syrian revolution, Syrian conflict, Syrian Civil War, race, religion, immigration, Chicago, terrorism, Idlib, Donald Trump

Blogs, Bleader Apr 6, 2017
An Iraqi-American professor remembers his complicated midwestern youth

DePaul’s Laith Saud describes his American life during a seemingly endless war.
- By Sarah Conway
- Tags: News, Immigration, Politics, Race, Religion, The Trump Era, Laith Saud, Iraq, Iraqi, Muslim, Islam, war on terror, Gulf War, race, religion, immigration, DePaul University, terrorism, Sunni, Shia, George W. Bush, September 11, Donald Trump

Blogs, Bleader Mar 16, 2017
Muslim, Latina, and attacked from all sides

Chicago-area resident Diana Cruz on living in Trump’s America
- By Alex V. Hernandez
- Tags: Immigration, News, Politics, Race, Religion, The Trump Era, Diana Cruz, Muslim, Islam, Latina, race, religion, Donald Trump, immigration, #MuslimBan, travel ban, Muslim Community Center, Islam in Spanish, Institute of Islamic Information and Education, CAIR, Council on American Islamic Relations, Gain Peace, terrorism, Oklahoma City bombing

Film, Movie Review Jan 18, 2017
Recommended Video
Patriots Day soft-pedals the citywide lockdown that followed the Boston Marathon bombing

Mark Wahlberg stars as a Boston cop on the trail of two lone-wolf jihadists.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Patriots Day, Peter Berg, Boston Marathon bombing, Mark Wahlberg, Jessica Kensky, Rachel Brosnahan, Patrick Downes, Christopher O’Shea, Sean Collier, Jake Picking, Jeff Pugliese, J.K. Simmons, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Alex Wolff, Themo Melikidze, Ed Davis Boston police, John Goodman, Richard DesLauriers, Kevin Bacon, Deval Patrick, Michael Beach, Deepwater Horizon, Lone Survivor, American Sniper, Katherine Russell, Melissa Benoist, Khandi Alexander, terrorism, policing, martial law, Recommended, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 21, 2016
Mendoza and Munger continue to spar even though the comptroller's race is over, and other Chicago news

Also, former Mayor Daley is scheduled for deposition in January in a Jon Burge-related torture lawsuit.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Susana Mendoza, Illinois Comptroller, Leslie Munger, Springfield, Richard M. Daley, Jon Burge, police torture, Chicago, winter weather, gun violence, gang violence, Christkindlmarket, Daley Plaza, terrorism, Berlin, Caddyshack, Bill Murray, Rosemont, restaurant openings, Mad Men, Joel Murray

Blogs, Bleader Jun 24, 2016
Alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa on Orlando: ‘It really hit close to home’

Chicago’s first openly gay alderman reflects on the mass shooting’s impact on queer and Latinx communities.
- By Marc Daalder
- Tags: News, LGBT, Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, Orlando, LGBTQ, Chicago Police Department, Eddie Johnson, mass shooting, terrorism, hate crime, gun violence, Islamophobia, homophobia

Blogs, Bleader Jun 13, 2016
‘We'll always be here for you’: Top cop vows to protect Chicago’s LGBTQ community in wake of Orlando shooting

LGBTQ groups, city officials, and ordinary Chicagoans also expressed grief and outrage over the worst mass shooting in American history.
- By Marc Daalder
- Tags: News, LGBT, Orlando, LGBTQ, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Police Department, Eddie Johnson, mass shooting, terrorism, hate crime, gun violence, homophobia, Islamophobia

Blogs, Bleader Jan 7, 2016
Reading Charlie Hebdo in Evanston

On the anniversary of the deadly Charlie Hebdo shootings in Paris, Evanston's City Newsstand recounts how it got hold of the French satirical magazine’s first post-attack edition.
- By Nick Kariuki
- Tags: News, Media, Charlie Hebdo, Paris, terrorism, City Newsstand, media

Blogs, Bleader Jun 18, 2013
Jeremy Scahill on Dirty Wars and the global battlefield

The journalist takes questions about his muckraking documentary.
- By Dan Massoglia
- Tags: Film, Politics, Dirty Wars, Landmark's Century Centre, Jeremy Scahill, Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army, Abdulelah Haider Shaye, Barack Obama, Joint Special Operations Command, Nasser al-Awlaki, Anwar al-Awlaki, Al Qaeda, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, Lupe Fiasco, war on terror, U.S. foreign policy, U.S. military, terrorism

Blogs, Bleader Sep 25, 2012
The terrorist mind—a look back at a 1972 plot to poison Chicago

The terrorist mind—a look back at a 1972 plot to poison Chicago
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Recycling Week, Media, News, Variations on a Theme, Allan Schwandner, Stephen Pera, terrorism, plot to poison Chicago's water, Adel Daoud, "Toxic Terror, " W. Seth Carus

Blogs, Bleader Jun 14, 2012
The presidency: take this job and love it

If Obama's so smart, why does he want four more years?
- By Steve Bogira
- Tags: Election 2012, Politics, News, Barack Obama, second term, reelection, presidents, unemployment, poverty, inequality, foreclosures, European debt crisis, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Taxmageddon, spending cuts, tax increases, Congress, White House, inauguration, Syrian massacres, bombings in Iraq, Shiites, Sunnis, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Egypt, Iran, uranium enrichment, North Korean missiles, terrorism, Russia, China, Secret Service, Mitt Romney, midterms, Bush tax cuts, minimum wage, carbon fuel standard, cap-and-trade, Guantanamo, Ryan Lizza, term limits, New Yorker, Bill Daley, Affordable Care Act, Supreme Court, Theo Epstein, Cubs, Boston Globe, major league baseball, climate change

Columns & Opinion, On Media May 16, 2012
NATO uncovered

A big international story in a city whose press no longer thinks globally
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Michael Miner on Media, NATO, NATO summit, First Amendment rights, National Writers Union, Democratic National Convention, 1968, the FBI, terrorism, protesting, war, Europe, Col War, Richard Longworth, journalism, reporting, Barack Obama

Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 2, 2012
Revolting babies

In punky, dystopian Rise of the Numberless, outlawed children take to the ramparts
- By Zac Thompson
- Tags: Theater Review, Ursula Le Guin, Kazuo Ishiguro, Cormac McCarthy, Margaret Atwood, rock musical, New Colony, Bailiwick Chicago, dystopia, Patraic Coakley, Andrew Hobgood, Evan Linder, Chris Gingrich, Julie Nichols, rebellion, terrorism, paramilitary

Blogs, Bleader May 24, 2011
Call him Professor Daley
- By Alex Parker
- Tags: Morning Newsfeed, Mayor Daley, University of Chicago, terrorism, tornadoes, Pakistan, Mullah Omar, Taliban, Nigerian scam, Rapture

Blogs, Bleader May 3, 2011
Five Funerals and Osama

The Alliance of Pentaphilic Curators hosts funerals for bygone ideas while the country remembers bin Laden.
- By Sam Worley
- Tags: Broken, Politics, Clout City, Five Funerals, Alliance of Pentaphilic Curators, Osama bin Laden, Dave Weigel, Slate, Jameson, Jack Daniels, big deals, Lakeview, New York Times, Justin Kaufmann, the Charnel House, multiculturalism, terrorism

Blogs, Bleader Mar 24, 2011
In Your Morning Newsfeed: Cost-Conscious Terrorist, Jewel's New Bagging Policy, More Cops on the Streets, $9 Million, Knut Is Dead, and More
- By Alex Parker
- Tags: News, terrorism, lottery, Knut, Moammar Ghaddafi, Chicago Police, Jewel-Osco

Blogs, Bleader Jun 17, 2010
The Human Souls of Engineers

It is the nature of engineers to use physics to solve problems.
- By Cliff Doerksen
- Tags: Media, Media, Amy Bishop, Amy Bishop shooting, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Harvard Bombing, engineers, terrorism, tenure, Concordia University, Valery Fabrikant

Blogs, Bleader Nov 16, 2009
Bad Timing for the Bedwetting Brigade
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Politics, Clout City, Thomson IL, Thomson Correctional Center, Guantanamo, terrorism, Mark Kirk, Illlinois GOP, Thomas Silverstein

Blogs, Bleader Jan 7, 2009
News of the weird, music edition

Murder, bombs, Jimmy Buffett, and Asher Roth
- By Miles Raymer
- Tags: Music, Crickets, Terrorism, Jimmy Buffett, Asher Roth

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