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People in Washington, D.C., react to the verdict in Derek Chauvin's trial on April 20, 2021.

Column: Can we expect peace after Chauvin verdict? It’s not likely.

April 21, 2021 at 11:23 a.m.

Watching the horrific video of George Floyd dying under the knee of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin, even before charges were filed last year, I called it the way...

Then-Chicago police Superintendent Eddie Johnson at police headquarters on Oct. 28, 2019.

Column: Former top cop Eddie Johnson defends officer in Adam Toledo’s death

April 16, 2021 at 6:36 p.m.

The family of 13-year-old Adam Toledo, shot dead by a Chicago police officer, asked that "people express themselves peacefully." But a lawyer for the family poured gasoline on the fire....

Elizabeth Arguelles arranges flowers at a makeshift memorial near the site where Adam Toledo was shot by police in the Little Village neighborhood on April 15, 2021.

Column: The Adam Toledo video and a fragile Chicago: How much more can the city take?

April 15, 2021 at 6:53 p.m.

As Chicago processes the horrible police video of 13-year-old Adam Toledo being shot dead by an officer in the Little Village neighborhood, there are many unknowns. How will the city...

Patrisse Khan-Cullors, a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, participates in a peaceful march in Hollywood, California, on June 7, 2020, sparked by the death of George Floyd.

Column: What was Marx’s position on high-end real estate? Ask BLM’s Patrisse Khan-Cullors.

April 15, 2021 at 5:16 a.m.

Patrisse Khan-Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter and a self-described "trained Marxist," is extremely upset with media outlets reporting on her $3.2 million portfolio of luxury homes, including one in...

Police work at the scene where a Chicago police officer fatally shot a person March 29, 2021, near the corner of 2400 S. Sawyer Ave., behind Farragut Career Academy High School.

Column: Chicago looks to Minnesota, awaits another police shooting video, and holds its breath

April 14, 2021 at 9:34 a.m.

Chicago holds its breath, awaiting release of a police video showing 13-year-old Adam Toledo, reportedly with a gun, shot dead by a cop. The city by the lake hasn't recovered...

Workers load an all-star sign onto a trailer after it was removed from Truist Park in Atlanta on April 6, 2021.

Column: Biden’s legacy: The president who poisoned baseball.

April 8, 2021 at 2:38 p.m.

Baseball's greatest day was April 15, 1947. It was the day when Jackie Robinson broke baseball's infamous color line to become the first Black player ever to play in a...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry at his bookstore in Archer City, Texas, in 2014.

Column: Larry McMurtry and Beverly Cleary, two friends gone on the same day

April 2, 2021 at 5:27 p.m.

I've just lost two friends. They may have been friends of yours as well. I didn't know them the way many of us know our friends, talking out our thoughts...

Alex Infante prepares the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in the vaccine pharmacy center that will be given to patients at Credit Union 1 Arena in Chicago on Feb. 8, 2021.

Column: After that second dose of coronavirus vaccine, what comes next?

April 2, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

After receiving my second coronavirus vaccine shot on Thursday, I thought I could feel the onset of the dreaded reaction I'd read about: I thought so because my hair was...

The Ever Given makes its way through the Suez Canal in Egypt after being freed on March 29, 2021.

Column: Roll up your sleeve for the March moutza

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

We've had an amazingly lush crop of blithering idiots, nincompoops, ninnyhammers, dunderwhelps and jerks over the past few weeks leading up to the Golden Moutza of March. They are so...

Column: Asian American judge challenges racism inherent in ‘equity’

March 31, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

Have you read, heard or seen that important news story about an Asian American federal judge — born in Taiwan and subject to discrimination growing up — who confronted and...

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