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Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris interacts with viewers via a videoconference Aug. 19, 2020, the third night of the Democratic National Convention.

Column: (Virtual) convention bar talk: If Joe Biden wins the White House, will Pritzker appoint himself senator?

August 21, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

The Democratic National Convention is selling Joe Biden as if he were some fragile Lladro figurine on the Home Shopping Network. It's not compelling and ratings are down. But that's...

Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx speaks June 4, 2020, during an event in the Austin neighborhood.

Column: Kim Foxx. I will be your champion. I will take your case. Bless you.

August 20, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

Somebody has to defend Kim Foxx. And I guess I drew the short straw. Foxx, the Cook County state's attorney, has been publicly called out as a liar for her...

In this image from video, Eva Longoria, serving as moderator, speaks during the first night of the Democratic National Convention on Monday, Aug. 17, 2020. (Democratic National Convention via AP)

Column: Democratic National Convention ignores the elephant in the virtual room: Big-city violence

August 18, 2020 at 1:36 p.m.

The "We the People"-themed Democratic National Convention, like the Republican one to follow, shows us what America has known for years, that conventions are only infomercials designed to bend reality...

A worker tears off a windowpane damaged by looters at Crosell and Co. on Huron Street, following early morning looting and violence in Chicago on Aug. 10, 2020.

Column: The political utility of violence: BLM and what happened at Ronald McDonald House in Chicago

August 15, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

At a Black Lives Matter rally the other day in support of the mobs of looters in downtown Chicago, BLM activists spoke an inconvenient truth: For the hard left in...

Then-candidate for Chicago mayor Paul Vallas prepares for a forum at the Renee Crown Public Media Center on Feb. 18, 2019, in Chicago.

Column: After downtown looting, Paul Vallas calls out Mayor Lightfoot: ‘I don’t think she knows what she’s doing’

August 13, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot wants to avoid troublesome subjects — like spiking violence and public schools not opening — so she talked Wednesday of her pet political art project. She...

Police remain on the scene in Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood after stores were looted early on Aug. 10, 2020.

Column: One story from the night of looting in Chicago that doesn’t fit the approved narrative

August 12, 2020 at 11:28 a.m.

National Democrats are silent about the violence in Chicago, about the skyrocketing increase in murders and shootings, and the mobs of looters who pillaged the city's finest shopping district the...

A squirrel eats atop a garbage can along California Avenue in Chicago. Columnist John Kass has admitted to putting his dog's poop in stranger's trash bins.

Column: Today, readers get their writes on recent columns

August 7, 2020 at 7:35 p.m.

Today, let's give the readers their writes. I had an idea, since we are in the era of protests, and riots, and (public worker) unions threatening to go on strike...

John Kass' Zeus the Wonder Dog is a German shorthaired pointer.

Column: Taking Zeus the Wonder Dog for a walk in Chicago to avoid politics

August 7, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

A nice frenemy I want to call Karen (though her real name is Janet) is of the left and hates my take on politics. Though Karen-Janet lives in woke-world, she...

Chicago police investigate the scene of a shooing on Oak Street in the Gold Coast neighborhood on Aug. 4, 2020.

Column: Has Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot lost the city? And why must she stand alone?

August 6, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

Just the other day, about an hour after the street gang shooting on Oak Street near the Magnificent Mile, where wealthy taxpayers play and shop, a man I know sent...

Then-Vice President Joe Biden and then-national security adviser Susan Rice talk in the Oval Office in 2015.

Column: Protecting Joe Biden from a debate, and Susan Rice, ‘by the book’

August 5, 2020 at 8:48 a.m.

As Joe Biden sits in his basement watching daytime TV, enjoying his ice cream or pudding, his political handlers have two important tasks: No. 1. At all costs, avoid debates...

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