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Attorney General William Barr testifies during a Senate hearing on the Mueller report on May 1, 2019.

Attorney General William Barr mentions spying, and fear roils the Democrats

May 31, 2019 at 4:11 p.m.

The public faking of sincerity is an underappreciated, yet dark and unctuous art, practiced with great skill by Roman senators, French courtiers (just before the advent of the guillotine) and,...

Members of the Fraternal Order of Police and supporters rally outside the Cook County office building in Chicago on April 1, 2019, in reaction to prosecutors' decision to drop all charges against "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett.

Not ordering a special prosecutor in Jussie Smollett mess would be ‘unsettling, nay, repugnant’

May 31, 2019 at 4:10 p.m.

Retired appellate Judge Sheila O'Brien's call for a special prosecutor to investigate the stinking Jussie Smollett fiasco is making some people very upset. They find it quite unsettling, nay, repugnant,...

Chicago Blackhawks Chairman Rocky Wirtz, shown on Nov. 16, 2018, raised around $200,000 for former schools CEO Paul Vallas' mayoral campaign.

Rocky Wirtz sheds no tears for Rahm Emanuel’s long goodbye

May 31, 2019 at 4:10 p.m.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel, desperately searching for legacy, has been on his long goodbye tour for weeks now, and just as he was about to make yet another farewell speech on...

Did the land of John Kass' ancestors do something outrageous enough to earn the Moutza of the Month?

Should Greek government win moutza for the latest ‘horta’ outrage?

May 31, 2019 at 4:10 p.m.

Good reporters know there is no such thing as a dumb question because it is often the so-called "dumb" questions that produce amazing and devastating responses. Such as one asked...

Then-President Barack Obama, left, thanks performers — including Jussie Smollett at far right — at a PBS special tribute to Ray Charles at the White House in 2016.

If it pleases the court: Watch Jussie Smollett in an Obama White House video

May 31, 2019 at 4:10 p.m.

In Chicago we have a saying: We don't want nobody nobody sent. But Jussie Smollett isn't a nobody, is he? He's a somebody. And I've just seen an Obama White...

Kass passes the torch on the Easter lamb

May 31, 2019 at 4:11 p.m.

A day doesn't go by without some angry soul screaming at me on social media, or in an email, saying it's high time I quit doing the thing I love....

Toni Preckwinkle insisted repeatedly during the mayoral campaign that all the money collected for her during a fundraiser at Ald. Edward Burke's home had been returned. Yet $72,000 of it remains in her campaign account.

Will Toni Preckwinkle’s fingers be burned over Burke money? ‘To be determined’

May 31, 2019 at 4:09 p.m.

"To be determined" is such a modern office thing to say. There is no blood in this phrase that belongs to all of those who work in cubicles. "To be...

Mia McCline destroys a television with a sledgehammer inside a "rage room" at Escapades Chicago on West Ohio Street in August 2018.

Rage rooms needed for Illinois’ beleaguered politicians: Kim Foxx, Ed Burke and J.B Pritzker

May 31, 2019 at 4:10 p.m.

We keep hearing about the hordes of taxpayers being forced to flee Illinois on account of what the politicians have done to them. But what about those who are left...

A view of the press room seating assignments before a news conference with U.S. Attorney General William Barr about the release of the Mueller report at the Department of Justice on April 18, 2019, in Washington, D.C.

The Blanche DuBois fantasy over the Mueller report

May 31, 2019 at 4:10 p.m.

For almost three years now, much of the American political media — what I've been calling the Democratic Media Complex — has been clinging to a fantasy about President Donald...

Jussie Smollett and Kass not the only ones blessed by Kim Foxx: Meet John ‘Quarters’ Boyle

May 31, 2019 at 4:10 p.m.

Ever have one of those movie moments when you know you're going to cry and you just don't care who sees your happy tears? Like that moment when Dennis Quaid...

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