Column: With each day, the probe into Jan. 6 gets more bizarre
By now, almost no one who has paid much attention to today's nexus between politics and show business should be surprised to find Kanye West's name pop up in the...
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Column: After Smollett case, Kim Foxx’s ‘progressive’ approach faces more trial
As a Cook County jury found actor Jussie Smollett guilty of faking a racist and homophobic attack on himself, attention quickly turned to State's Attorney Kim Foxx, the prosecutor who...
Column: Don’t let holiday ‘smash-and-grabbers’ get away with it
This could be remembered as the winter of two pandemics: COVID-19, of course, and the smash-and-grab robberies pandemic. Since late November, security cameras have been providing us with plenty of...
Column: Critical race theory is no excuse for ignorance
Political campaign season may be over but battles against what increasingly is being called "critical race theory" are not. I still put CRT in quotes. I know that those who...
Column: Jussie Smollett case also puts hate crime law on trial
As the Jussie Smollett trial began this week, I was reminded of the early verdict that Dave Chappelle delivered without the inconvenience of having to sit through a trial. Everyone...
Column: Another way to fight violent hate groups? Take ’em to court
Once there was a time when the very idea of suing a hate group like the Ku Klux Klan for damages sounded as plausible as punching out a thunderstorm, until...
Column: Waukesha tragedy calls for serious bail reform, not finger-pointing
No, there is absolutely nothing funny about the horrors that abruptly ended Waukesha's Christmas parade. But Mary Lemanski gave it a try, for which she has received more brickbats than...
Column: If ‘woke’ is a religion, why not ‘Trumpism’?
Americans don't always limit their religions to the most holy of beliefs. Pollsters who keep track of such matters report that the numbers of religiously unaffiliated — describing their religious...
Column: Two racially inflamed murder cases challenge our sense of racial progress
Trials are a contest between dueling narratives. In the two racially charged murder trials that have gripped the nation in Wisconsin and Georgia, the narratives also stage a contest between...
Column: Sen. Josh Hawley’s blame campaign. Much ado about us dudes
Too many men are stuck in a cycle of "idleness and pornography and video games." So says Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley, one of the Grand Old Party's brightest right-wing...