Eric Zorn

My first reaction was a quiet, "Hmmm." I was on furlough earlier this month — all union members in the Tribune newsroom are taking three unpaid weeks this summer due...

I find it disturbing to see the word "white" capitalized in reference to race — "candidates will be courting the White vote" for example — mainly because it echoes a...

"The Cheesecake Factory will start reopening restaurants but they'll offer only a limited, 413-page menu." — @RodLacroix "I think we need to stop calling it 'working from home' and start...

"Your move, Mayor Lightfoot." That was my son's reaction to the news Thursday that New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio has ordered the words "Black Lives Matter" to be painted...

I believe I cannot fly. Not yet. After three and a half months of trying to maintain a 6-foot bubble around myself in public I'm not ready to sit with...

The course correction was overdue. For too long, America tolerated and even encouraged the public display of monuments to the 19th century traitors who led a rebellion to preserve the...

Instructions: Click the box next to each tweet that amuses you -- no limit to the number of choices. Voting closes Friday at noon Chicago time. Winner is published in...

The best pro-health sign I've seen this pandemic is the one posted at both North Side locations of the Chicago Bagel Authority sandwich shop: "To accommodate anti-maskers," it says, "we...

As cartoon critiques go, the controversial image posted on Twitter Wednesday evening by the Chicago Teachers Union was a misfire — a logically problematic, easily misconstrued and, in the end,...