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Column: We will never surrender. The Golden Moutza of April is at hand.

May 7, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

Some people just can't handle the pressure of helping to award the Golden Moutza. "It gets harder every month," complained Christine Erengis-Morley. "After listening to your podcast with Charles Lipson,...

In this image from video, former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin, center, is taken into custody as his attorney, Eric Nelson, left, looks on, after the verdicts were read on April 20, 2021, at Chauvin's trial at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis for the 2020 death of George Floyd.

Column: Derek Chauvin case appeal: Could America handle this again?

May 6, 2021 at 5:10 a.m.

When former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of the murder of George Floyd, cities across America still not recovered from violence out of last year's Floyd protests breathed...

Ald. Roderick Sawyer, 6th, bumps elbows with Mayor Lori Lightfoot before they each receive their first COVID-19 vaccination doses on Jan. 25, 2021, at St. Bernard Hospital in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago.

Column: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot walks loudly but carries no stick

May 5, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is often portrayed in national media as a strong liberal Democratic avatar eager to do rhetorical battle with Republicans. But talk isn't power. Talk is talk....

Nurses of the Hellenic Red Cross attend a Good Friday procession of the Epitaphios, in the Athens Orthodox Cathedral, on Friday, April 30, 2021. Worshippers lined up at churches across Greece on Orthodox Good Friday as the government kept pandemic restrictions in place through the Easter holiday.

Column: No backyard lamb again this Easter, but something even better

May 1, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

This is the second Easter in a row that we won't be roasting a lamb over coals. But I'm not depressed about it this year. Last year, I was depressed....

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., walks through the U.S. Capitol on April 28, 2021, before he delivers the Republican response to President Joe Biden's address to Congress.

Column: On the wings of leftist trolls, GOP Sen. Tim Scott rises toward 2024

April 30, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

Sen. Tim Scott, the Republican from South Carolina and the GOP's only Black senator, has just been propelled to the front of the 2024 Republican presidential campaign. For this you...

Buona Beef general manager Peter Knipfer assembles the company's new plant-based Italian Beefless sandwich in Chicago on April 23, 2021.

Column: Fake Italian beef: What could go wrong?

April 29, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

I know there's a lot of bad, terribly depressing news out there. You know it too. Tragedy, pain and violence. Not to mention tax increases, too much federal spending with...

Chicago police Superintendent David Brown holds a news conference April 22, 2021, at police headquarters.

Column: Chicago top cop’s inconvenient truth: Fathers in gang life bear responsibility when their kids get hurt

April 28, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

With violence rising in Chicago, as children like 7-year-old Jaslyn Adams are gunned down in street gang wars and as reporters complained he had stayed away from the media, Chicago...

Valerie Jarrett, former adviser to President Barack Obama, speaks at the City Club luncheon at Maggiano's in Chicago, in 2017.

Column: The insanity of the left’s ‘Let the kids have their knife fights’ argument

April 24, 2021 at 5:17 p.m.

One of the more insane developments from the tragic shooting death of knife wielding Ma'Khia Bryant in Columbus has been the emergence of a desperate fantasy from the political left:...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot watches police Superintendent David Brown speak April 5, 2021, at New Life Church in Little Village about the police shooting death of 13-year-old Adam Toledo.

Column: How to protect Lightfoot from cop controversies: Disarm police, give them whistles and call them ‘bobbies’

April 23, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

I'm wholeheartedly, enthusiastically, 1,000% in support of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's plan to impose radical changes to make police foot chases as safe as can be. She's considering a new...

Column: Fishing up north and my new indelicate nickname

April 22, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

I've just had it. My mind has been fried to a crisp like the last shrimp forgotten in the hot oil until closing time. So, I'm going back fishing in...

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