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I am not a fan of hidden microphone ambushes. It's sneaky and dishonest. The kind of ambush that journalist and activist Lauren Windsor pulled off at the recent Supreme Court Historical Society dinner was particularly unseemly because she posed as a conservative activist type and attempted to lead the witnesses — Supreme Court justices and spouses — into saying something clickbaity that could be shopped to an ideological ally in the press. Windsor, a progressive, is taking a leaf from James O'Keefe's playbook. Читать дальше...

It’s nearly two years since the conservative Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the decision that had protected access to abortion for nearly 50 years, sparking a seismic series of events in American political history.

Mike Downey was one of my sportswriting heroes.

My first job out of college was at Star Publications in the south suburbs, where he had worked years before. By that time, 1983, he was an extremely popular columnist at the Detroit Free Press. I’d go back and read Mike’s coverage of high school sports at the Star with a combination of awe and despair. Awe because he'd been a fully formed wordsmith at a young age and despair because I wasn’t.

By the time I worked up the nerve to write him a letter and send him some of my work... Читать дальше...

Charges are pending for an assailant who shot a 70-year-old man he was arguing with Thursday morning in the Irving Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side.

The anticipation surrounding Chief Keef’s return to the Chicago area is at a fever pitch.

Why yes, $30,000 does seem like a lot of money for a man to spend in a little more than a year having his hair cut. And make-up, don't forget. Television make-up, one assumes. I hasten to add that we are free to festoon ourselves however we please, and I would never judge anyone. I have no idea what a tube of lipstick costs nowadays, but imagine it's expensive.

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