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Myesha James, center, the mother 3-year-old Mekhi James, who was fatally shot Saturday afternoon, holds a photo of Mekhi while speaking with friends, family, and supporters during a vigil for her son in the Austin neighborhood on June 22, 2020, in Chicago.

Column: What matters more? Black children like Mekhi James or big city politics?

June 24, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

Mekhi James, just 3 years old, is beyond the reach of your virtue signaling and your politics now. That little boy slipped into Chicago's never-ending river of violence as have...

Chicago police ride near marchers on West 16th Street in Chicago calling attention to issues affecting African Americans on June 12, 2020.

Column: Police families on Father’s Day: ‘Everybody has something to say, but cops can’t say a thing. It gets to you.’

June 19, 2020 at 6:07 p.m.

As anti-police protests continue amid seething politics in the aftermath of police killings in Minneapolis and Atlanta, as violence in many urban areas continues to spike, almost everyone is having...

A sign reads "Welcome to CHOP" inside what has been named the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone in Seattle on June 14, 2020. Protesters calling for police reform and other demands have taken over several blocks near downtown Seattle after officers withdrew from a police station in the area following confrontations. The CHOP name is a change from CHAZ (Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone) that was used earlier in the week.

Column: Who else dares speak for the mistreated vegetables of CHAZ/CHOP?

June 19, 2020 at 11:24 a.m.

The last thing I need right now is to have my head lopped off by angry Jacobins of the cultural revolution over yet another column mocking CHAZ or CHOP or...

Ald. Raymond Lopez, 15th, speaks during a baiduhai interview at La Cecina restaurant in Chicago's Back of the Yards neighborhood on Dec. 10, 2019.

Column: Is Ald. Raymond Lopez running against Mayor Lori Lightfoot in 2023?

June 18, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot doesn't hide the fact that she just can't stand her most persistent critic, Ald. Raymond Lopez of the Southwest Side's 15th Ward, and doesn't think much...

Seattle police Chief Carmen Best talks with activists near a plywood-covered and closed police precinct on June 9, 2020, in Seattle, following protests over the death of George Floyd.

Column: A warning to Trump and Republicans: Leave the nation of CHAZ alone!

June 12, 2020 at 6:53 p.m.

To the good people of CHAZ: Greetings and salutations, my lefty friends! I'm going help you build your experimental new revolutionary nation — now that you have your borders and...

U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush watches as Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks during a news conference on June 11, 2020.

Column: Mayor Lori Lightfoot redirects anger to a new enemy — the Police Department and its union

June 12, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot is now praising U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush for that gift of a video that helps her kick the Chicago police union in the teeth. I still don't...

Physicians and team members gather in front of Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn and kneel for eight minutes and 46 seconds in honor of George Floyd on June 5, 2020.

Column: Politics as religion after George Floyd. This isn’t an Orwellian novel. This is your country.

June 11, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

What are you really seeing as Americans kneel, hands raised in secular prayer, repeating political creeds on the TV news? And that secular foot-washing? You're witness to neo-Marxist appropriation of...

A dead Asian giant hornet sent from Japan is held by a Washington State Agriculture Department entomologist in May. The insect has been dubbed the "murder hornet" in reference to its appetite for honey bees.

Column: Behold the Golden Moutza for the horrible month of May

June 5, 2020 at 7:49 p.m.

Who wins your Golden Moutza of the horrible month of May? "May," answered reader Paul Zimmerman. "May, the Month of Madness." By wanting to give the Moutza of the Month...

People clean up outside a Jewel-Osco grocery store on June 1, 2020, in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago, after the business was broken into during unrest in reaction to the death of George Floyd. Another Jewel at 75th Street and Stony Island was also looted.

Column: Heartbreak, but also scenes of moral courage amid looting of South Side supermarket

June 5, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

The looting was over days ago, and on Thursday, the boards were up, covering the windows of the Jewel at 75th and Stony Island Avenue. The store had been looted....

David Dorn, a 77-year-old retired St. Louis police officer who served 38 years on the force, was fatally shot at a pawnshop early June 2, 2020, police said.

Column: Will anyone take a knee for retired police Capt. David Dorn?

June 4, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

America is all about taking the knee again, after the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. Taking the knee has become a political act in protests...

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