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Pat Fitzmaurice and his wife, Marilyn, talk about their backyard garden in Chicago on Friday, July 10, 2020.

Column: Friends get plenty of advice, welcome or not, on their beautiful new garden

July 10, 2020 at 5:52 p.m.

Marilyn and Pat Fitzmaurice have a coronavirus victory garden that is the envy of their Northwest Side neighborhood. And a strange person they call The Garden Pethera came over to...

Contestants on the History Channel's "Alone" compete to survive 100 days in the Canadian Arctic.

Column: Watching ‘Alone’ from the couch, perfect for our coronavirus times

July 10, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

I'm so hooked on "Alone," an extreme survival series on the History Channel that is just perfect for Americans isolated, and alone, in these bleak coronavirus shutdown times. Contestants, male...

Balloons are tied to a fence July 5, 2020, at 62nd and South Carpenter streets, where eight people were shot, four fatally, in the Englewood neighborhood.

Column: As Black children are killed in spiking urban violence, where’s the outrage from the white and the woke?

July 9, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

As street violence spikes in big cities across America run by Democrats, as parents grieve the loss of their children in the street gang wars, two things become terribly clear:...

Visitors check out the Mount Rushmore National Monument in Keystone, South Dakota, on July 2, 2020. President Donald Trump is scheduled to visit the monument this weekend.

Column: On Independence Day, how about this slogan: ‘Who controls the past controls the future.’

July 3, 2020 at 6:26 p.m.

On this Independence Day weekend, on the Fourth of July holiday of 2020, with angry slogans being shouted and history being rewritten, you might wonder: Will Americans stand to sing...

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan listens to residents at a Juneteenth event in Seattle on June 19, 2020.

Column: The Golden Moutza of June shines so bright, they can see it in Minneapolis

July 3, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

As Cancel Culture gathers its power in one iron fist shared by government, politics and the corporate world, just giving the moutza may someday be cause enough to send you...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot begins a virtual City Council meeting from her office at City Hall in June.

Column: With children being slaughtered, Mayor Lori Lightfoot needs to drop the memes and lead

July 2, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

Chicago shudders as we get closer to the Independence Day weekend, and Mayor Lori Lightfoot must be asking herself: How many more babies will be murdered in Chicago's street gang...

Conservative radio talk show host Larry Elder appears at the premiere of "Death of a Nation" in Los Angeles in 2018.

Column: What frightens the American left: Larry Elder’s new documentary ‘Uncle Tom’

July 1, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

Is there anything more frightening to the American political left and their high media priests of the woke world than Black Americans who think for themselves and refuse to kneel?...

Charolette Baker, 7, and her uncle William Hawkins purchase two books at Anderson Bookshop in Naperville on May 29, 2020.

Column: Take a break from the (cultural) revolution with a good book

June 27, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

With all the anger in America now, the mobs toppling and erasing history, canceling careers, and those sensitivity camps about to begin, I needed escape, and hoped to read something...

Julie Christie and Oskar Werner in the 1966 film "Fahrenheit 451." We didn't call it "cancel culture" then, but "cancel culture" movies were popular, like this one.

Column: One wrong ‘like’ will get you canceled by cancel culture

June 26, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

The Thought Police of the American left now rule what's called the "cancel culture." You know this. Ask yourself: What is it doing to the young? Some will go through...

In 2017, vandals splashed red paint on the Theodore Roosevelt statue on the steps of the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan. New York City officials have agreed to a request by the museum to remove the statue.

Column: Today’s cultural revolution needs a new statue. She’s French, but is she woke enough?

June 25, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

Satire is a dangerous business, especially during our cultural revolution, with angry Jacobins beating up politicians, tearing down statues and terrifying corporate and political establishments in a great, leftist show...

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