Column: Mike Bloomberg’s campaign, the best money can buy
Judging by his early polling, Michael Bloomberg is giving election-buying a good name, as long as the money is filtered through the cleansing medium of television ad buys. As you...
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Column: After 10 years, ‘The New Jim Crow’ still has much to say about race, drug convictions and injustice
Every so often a book comes along that shakes up the national gabfest in a way that makes all of us talk about an old problem with a new urgency....
Column: Let’s ban secluded ‘quiet rooms’ in schools nationwide
Until recently, state Rep. Jonathan Carroll, a Northbrook Democrat, says he has avoided talking much in public about his childhood experiences with isolation punishment. But he was moved to blog...
Column: Democrats need to show they’re up for a fight — without falling apart
Now that Cory Booker has dropped out of the Democratic presidential race, it must come as a relief to some of his critics that white people still have an opportunity...
Column: Advice to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle: Don’t let the haters get you down
Yes, like numerous other people across the civilized world, I was oddly surprised but not really shocked to hear that Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, and his American-born wife,...
Column: Is the big tent of Democrats too big, as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says? Only to small minds.
Can a political party be too inclusive? Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez apparently thinks so. In a lengthy New York magazine profile this week, the New York congresswoman responded with a...
Column: Black voters appear to be closing their 2020 enthusiasm gap
Then-candidate Donald Trump told a mostly white rally crowd in Michigan in 2016 that "at the end of four years, I guarantee you that I will get over 95% of...
Column: From Instagram to Baby Yoda, the 2010s entertained people. But are they using the Force wisely?
As the 2010s come to a close, so does the moment I dread, trying to make sense of the past decade. It's not easy to tell what distinguishes this decade...
Column: A blow to Obamacare could deal the GOP a political hit too. They should try to fix it.
Here we go again. While the U.S. House was voting for the impeachment of President Donald Trump, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in New Orleans ruled...
Column: Gary’s Richard Hatcher helped launch a post-civil rights era
He was the last of the firsts. That's probably how Richard Gordon Hatcher, one of the nation's first black elected big-city mayors, most often will be remembered. Hatcher died Friday...