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Emergency room nurses tour a special isolation bay for suspected coronavirus patients at the Emergency Center at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago on March 11, 2020.

Column: It’s now 100 days since a pandemic was declared. We may still be in the early stages of a transformative disaster.

June 19, 2020 at 6:49 a.m.

At the last minute I decided to pack my thermal coffee cup. It was the end of the work day on March 11, and I was preparing to leave my...

Actor Ryan Gosling arrives at Warner Bros. Pictures' "Gangster Squad" premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California.

Crazy, stupid Tweet of the Week poll — be sure to vote by Friday at noon!

June 16, 2020 at 6:20 p.m.

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...

A NASCAR official kneels during the national anthem before a NASCAR Cup Series auto race at Atlanta Motor Speedway on June 7, 2020, in Hampton, Georgia.

Column: O say can’t you see it’s time to stop playing the national anthem before sporting events?

June 16, 2020 at 2:51 p.m.

Will you stand? Will you sit? Will you kneel? Once major team sports resume, fans as well as players will face an uncomfortable decision just prior to the game when...

Filmmaker Michael Moore speaks on behalf of then-presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders during a campaign event in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Feb. 1, 2020.

Column: 2020 deals another shocker: Michael Moore has infuriated and disappointed the left

June 12, 2020 at 4:48 p.m.

Aside from the percolating presidential race, what would the big news story of the summer of 2020 be if the novel coronavirus had never reached our shores and Minneapolis police...

Driver Bubba Wallace wears a Black Lives Matter shirt as he prepares for a NASCAR Cup Series race on June 10, 2020, in Martinsville, Va.

Column: When NASCAR stomps on the Confederate flag, you know times they have a’changed.

June 13, 2020 at 8:20 a.m.

Well, that didn't take long. Only a little more than 155 years after the surrender at Appomattox, the Confederate battle flag is finally getting its due as a disgraceful symbol...

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For less than the price of a cup of coffee — way less — you can fill out the Tweet of the Week survey

June 9, 2020 at 5:41 p.m.

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...

A sign in Douglas Park in Chicago shows an additional S added to the end of Douglas. The park is named after U.S. Sen. Stephen A. Douglas.

Column: Add the S already! The fierce urgency of renaming Chicago’s Douglas Park for Frederick Douglass

June 9, 2020 at 4:23 p.m.

After three years of stalling, throat clearing and excuse-making, three years of inaction and silence, it's now time for the Chicago Park District to officially rename Douglas Park for noted...

Protesters in Chicago's Loop carry signs reading "Defund CPD," referring to the Chicago Police Department, on Monday, June 8, 2020.

Column: Activists’ call to ‘defund the police’ is a confusing message that could backfire

June 8, 2020 at 7:05 p.m.

One little ambiguous prefix threatens to undo much of the apparent progress in the area of justice over the past two weeks: That prefix is "de-," as used in the...

Column: The microphone is passed: Chicago’s longest running radio program, ‘The Midnight Special,’ is getting a new host

May 29, 2020 at 3:38 p.m.

The year was 1967. Marilyn Rea, then a sophomore at Thornton Fractional South High School in suburban Lansing, came down with mononucleosis and was too sick one Saturday night to...

Column: Viral stupidity is no joke anymore. Anti-vaccination theory about Bill Gates is dangerous.

May 31, 2020 at 12:50 p.m.

We all had a good laugh — or rather, most of us did — in late 2015 when a Public Policy Polling survey of 1,057 likely voters in the presidential...

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