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The looted Walmart Neighborhood Market in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood on June 1, 2020.

Column: Liberal Democratic governors and mayors, mugged by reality in George Floyd fallout

June 3, 2020 at 10:13 a.m.

Whatever you think of President Donald Trump's "offer" of military assistance to riot-torn American cities — and I think it would be like pouring gasoline on a fire — understand...

Volunteer Julie Bunna sweeps broken glass along Michigan Avenue in front of the ransacked Under Armour store on May 31, 2020, the morning after unrest led to widespread destruction downtown.

Column: After the riots in Chicago, all that broken glass like shattered dreams

May 31, 2020 at 7:41 p.m.

After the riots in Chicago, what you noticed was all that broken glass from all the windows of all the looted stores and looted restaurants. Each crunching step was the...

Protesters watch as police in riot gear walk down a residential street, May 28, 2020, in St. Paul, Minn.

Column: Trump plays in the sewer. Why did Lori Lightfoot jump right in with him?

May 29, 2020 at 6:30 p.m.

Twitter is the open sewer in which President Donald Trump loves to play. And now he's trying to use his presidential pen to regulate that filthy playpen of his. But...

An empty Guaranteed Rate Field in Chicago, home of the Chicago White Sox, on May 8, 2020.

Column: Going coronavirus crazy, remembering something called sports

May 29, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

What do you need, right now, as you go crazy in your coronavirus lockdown? Some people say that all they really need is for me to agree with them. If...

Column: After police killing of George Floyd, Minneapolis should learn the lessons of Laquan McDonald.

May 28, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

What happened to George Floyd, a black man choked out by a white Minneapolis cop kneeling on his neck, sure looks like murder to me. It wasn't an accident. Floyd...

Presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden during a campaign event n Fort Madison, Iowa, on Jan. 31, 2020,.

Column: Joe Biden’s inconvenient Democratic truth: ‘You ain’t black.’

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

Why did Joe Biden feel the need to offer contrition after his "you ain't black" comments directed at black voters who might dare vote for President Donald Trump? Wasn't he...

Flowers and a flag on Monday, May 27, 2019, during a Memorial Day parade in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood.

Column: The Memorial Day parade: Another coronavirus casualty

May 23, 2020 at 10:20 a.m.

Another casualty of the coronavirus in the lockdown states is the Memorial Day parade, which signals the beginning of summer. Do you remember those Memorial Day parades in your town?...

Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine, flanked by Gov. Tom Wolf and Department of Education Secretary Pedro Rivera, provides an update on the coronavirus in March.

Column: Two classes in coronavirus America: Technocrats and people who work with their hands

May 22, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

Our mom was known for her great kolacky, so light and buttery and flaky, the best cookies I've ever eaten. But she had that stroke and now she's in a...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker speaks during his daily coronavirus pandemic briefing at the Illinois State Capitol on May 20, 2020, in Springfield.

Column: Is Pritzker’s coronavirus levee about to break?

May 21, 2020 at 11:33 a.m.

"If you'd told me six months ago that the governor of Illinois would declare churches 'nonessential' and shut them down, while liquor stores are 'essential' and open, I'd have asked...

Attorney General William Barr looks on as President Donald Trump meets with his Cabinet on May 19, 2020, at the White House.

Column: Before November, America must know more about the Obama White House and its Trump-Russia probe

May 20, 2020 at 5:26 a.m.

A recent headline in The New York Times — a paper of record for the anti-Trump Resistance — was adamant: "Barr Dismisses Trump's Claim That Russia Inquiry Was an Obama...

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