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- Columns & Opinion, Opinion Nov 13, 2019
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Winners and losers in the war on drugs
When it comes to marijuana, big-money political donors win while the rest of us keep losing.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 25, 2018
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Why the nationwide strike against ‘modern-day slavery’ may not reach Illinois. And why it's already here.
IDOC's job opportunities are so few and repression of organizing so intense that few inmates may be joining the nationwide labor strike. That doesn't mean they're not resisting.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 6, 2018
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The Pitchfork Music Festival announces its second wave of acts for 2018
Reader intern Rachel Yang returns to the Violet Hour to see who will join the 14 previously announced performers at this summer's Pitchfork Music Festival.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 20, 2015
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Cook County state's attorney: Time to lay off the pot prosecutions
State's attorney Anita Alvarez says her office will try to send people caught with small amounts of cannabis and hard drugs into treatment instead of jail.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 1, 2015
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Talking to the director of the El Chapo Guzman documentary that comes to the Patio on Friday
A conversation with the prolific TV journalist-turned-filmmaker, whose film Es el Chapo? opens in Chicago on Friday.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 27, 2015
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UPDATE: Drug trafficking Flores twins sentenced to 14 years
The most prolific traffickers in Chicago's history receive relatively light sentences.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 9, 2014
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Forget about Sun Kil Moon, here's some new TV on the Radio
Press play on "Careful You" and think about Sun Kil Moon's "War on Drugs" some other time.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 26, 2014
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Mayor Rahm does his best Richard Nixon
Mayor Rahm Emanuel takes a stand against recreational marijuana in an appeal to Chicago's non-existent "Silent Majority."
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 4, 2014
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Police chief: Time to trade the war on drugs for a war on guns
Garry McCarthy again calls for tougher sentences for gun offenders.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 6, 2014
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Could reparations for African-Americans help reduce violence?
A conversation with veteran reparations activist and political organizer Conrad Worrill.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 5, 2014
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Swimming in the muck (of Chicago politics)
Suddenly it's election season again—and swimming season too.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 20, 2014
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Clinton-era memos offer a trip through Mayor Rahm's brain
Memos from his days as a President Clinton staffer show that Mayor Rahm has always been a calculating political operator.
- News & Politics, Feature May 27, 2014
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The drug warrior
In his three-decade career, Chicago DEA chief Jack Riley has targeted the Outfit, dirty cops, street gangs, and the Sinaloa cartel, yet the drugs keep coming. He says that's all the more reason to continue fighting.
- Blogs, Bleader May 19, 2014
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Illinois pot policies are inconsistent and unjust, report concludes
Researchers at Roosevelt University find that marijuana enforcement depends on geography and race more than justice.
- News & Politics, Feature Apr 7, 2014
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Chicago decriminalized marijuana possession—but not for everyone
African-Americans account for almost eight of every ten low-level pot busts.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 6, 2014
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When news of El Chapo Guzmán's capture reached a federal prison
The capture of the Sinaloa cartel leader won't stop the flow of drugs, says a west-sider locked up for selling heroin
- News & Politics, Feature Nov 7, 2013
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The Chicago cocaine kingpin who was a federal informant
Pedro Flores is the U.S. government's star witness in the largest drug trafficking case in Chicago history. But should the DEA have looked the other way as he and his twin brother brought truckloads of coke into the city?
- Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Apr 3, 2013
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A history of gang violence: The Almighty Black P Stone Nation
A conversation about the five-decade evolution of a Chicago street gang
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 8, 2013
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The economic argument against drug prohibition
An interview with University of Chicago economist and vice specialist Jim Leitzel
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 22, 2013
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Drug arrests drop in Chicago but still snare thousands in black neighborhoods
While Mexican cartel leader "Chapo" Guzman is public enemy number one, most drug busts still snag street-level players.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 10, 2013
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City officials say they're committed to community policing, just not to funding it
A closer look at Mayor Emanuel's plan to "revitalize" the CAPS program
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 3, 2012
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What a robbery in Edgewater says about the police staffing debate, part two of two
A close look at a jewelry store stickup and the politics of police deployment, part two of two
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 2, 2012
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What a robbery in Edgewater says about the police staffing debate, part one of two
A close look at a jewelry store stickup and the politics of police deployment
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 26, 2012
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Superintendent McCarthy dismantles CAPS, will replace it with something at some point
Chicago police chief says we don't need more cops, just a new community policing policy to be determined later
- Film, Movie Critic's Choice Oct 10, 2012
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Just Say No More
Eugene Jarecki's documentary The House I Live In exposes the hopelessness and racism of the drug war
