Barbara J. Risman

The University of Illinois at Chicago campus on March 4, 2024. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Barbara J. Risman: Does UIC want to outcompete the Ivies for antisemitism?

March 27, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

When university resources are used to support some and alienate others, a hostile environment is bound to emerge.

Cubbies and storage are spaced away from each other for children in a learning center in Chicago on Aug. 7, 2020.

Commentary: A new Works Progress Administration could create ‘learning pods’ for all schoolchildren

August 10, 2020 at 3:42 p.m.

We are facing so many crises all at the same time. COVID-19 cases are again rising statewide, a pandemic of racial oppression has spawned an uprising in our city as...

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright introduces Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at a campaign event at Rundlett Middle School, in Concord, N.H., Saturday, Feb. 6, 2016. "There's a special place in hell for women who don't help each other," Albright said.

Are millennials feminists?

May 25, 2019 at 1:48 p.m.

Feminists my age and older — I'm in my late 50s — have been shocked to find how few young women are as excited as most of us by the...

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