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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel speaks at a press conference where he addressed issues related to the city's murder rate and the city's Sanctuary City policy on Jan. 25, 2017, in Chicago.

Political sniping won’t end Chicago violence

May 23, 2019 at 9:08 p.m.

I don't want to judge too hastily. Something good may come of President Donald Trump's offer to "send in the Feds!" if Chicago authorities can't curb the city's homicide crisis....

Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway gets ready to go on television outside the White House on Jan. 22, 2017, in Washington. In the broadcast, she used the term "alternative facts."

‘Alternative facts’ play to Americans’ fantasies

May 23, 2019 at 9:08 p.m.

Counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway said more than a little bit when she described President Donald Trump's press secretary as offering "alternative facts." That may well be the most...

Police check on a protester after he was pepper sprayed during a demonstration on the day of President Donald Trump's inauguration on Washington, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017.

How to cover Trump? Literally and seriously.

May 23, 2019 at 9:08 p.m.

Facing the looming realities of President Donald Trump, media outlets have been chewing nervously on an unusual question: How do we cover this guy? Of course, one would be hard-pressed...

Rep. John Lewis in 2016 views for the first time images and his arrest record for leading a nonviolent sit-in at segreated lunch counters in Nashville, Tenn., in 1963. Lewis has questioned the legitimacy of Donald Trump's election as president.

Why I’ll grit my teeth and accept Trump as ‘legitimate’

May 23, 2019 at 9:08 p.m.

If you're going to play the victim, make sure you're really victimized. That's the lesson that I hope conservative CNN commentator and radio host Ben Ferguson learned after criticizing Rep....

Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., speaks to the media before a painting he found offensive and that he removed is rehung on the U.S. Capitol walls on Jan.10, 2017, in Washington, DC. The painting is part of a larger art show hanging in the Capitol and is by a recent high school graduate, David Pulphus, and depicts his interpretation of civil unrest in and around the 2014 events in Ferguson, Mo.

Flap over Ferguson painting: Beware politicians who try to be art critics

May 23, 2019 at 9:08 p.m.

Congress has a lot of touchy issues to deal with these days, including one quite literally beneath their feet. A painting, "Untitled #1," by former Missouri high school student David...

Thanks, Meryl Streep, for defending press freedom

May 23, 2019 at 9:08 p.m.

Thank you, Meryl Streep. I often have been annoyed by Hollywood stars who use award shows to make political statements, although I have made exceptions for those who support causes...

Neighbors and news media members walk through an apartment Jan. 5, 2017, in the 3300 block ofWest Lexington Street, where police say four people held and beat an 18-year-old man with mental disabilities.

Torture case reopens our racial wounds — if we let it

May 23, 2019 at 9:08 p.m.

It didn't take long for the emails to arrive, as I expected. "Chicago hate crime today against Trump!" said one. "Let's see your column justify that one." He was writing...

Obama’s legacy: Uniter or divider?

May 23, 2019 at 9:08 p.m.

As President Barack Obama's two terms near an end and we talk of his legacy, we cannot ignore the grand come-together vision of unity he expressed in his 2004 debut...

Gary Slutkin, right, has spent years studying how violence spreads like a contagious disease.

The doctor who predicted Chicago’s homicide epidemic

May 23, 2019 at 9:08 p.m.

Chicago, the nation's third largest city, ends 2016 with more homicides than the two larger cities — New York and Los Angeles — put together. Everyone is shocked but not...

Taking 2016 literally, but not 100% seriously

May 23, 2019 at 9:08 p.m.

Our long wait is over. The time has come to honor the most quotable quotes from a bizarre political year that many of us wish we could forget. I call...

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