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After actor Jussie Smollett, shown in 2016, said he was attacked by pro-Trump racists, over 20 detectives were assigned to check out the story.

Politicians use Jussie Smollett, while a 1-year-old boy shot in the head is set aside

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

Something important has been lost in the embarrassing saga of Jussie Smollett, the tuna fish sandwich-loving actor and anti-Trump activist, and those muscular Nigerian brothers. And I suppose it’s easy...

Paul Vallas, second from left, answers one of the questions asked to the candidates running for mayor of Chicago during the One Chicago for All forum at the University of Illinois at Chicago on Jan. 12, 2019.

Wake up, Chicago: The race for mayor is this close

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

Chicago talks a lot about corruption, but Paul Vallas does something about it with that reform broom of his. At least he does in his “Clean Sweep” campaign ad, when...

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, shown under escort Jan. 19, 2017, by authorities in New York, used Chicago as the American hub for his massive drug-trafficking enterprise.

What happens next in El Chapo’s hub city, Chicago?

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

The trial and conviction of Mexican drug lord El Chapo has been highly entertaining, what with the diamond-encrusted guns, his naked sprints through escape tunnels, the “wild beast mistress” and...

When your wife tells you "Don't bother" on Valentine's Day, don't listen.

When she says ‘Don’t waste the money,’ don’t believe her. It’s Valentine’s Day.

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

In her supreme wisdom, Betty said I might not want to write about politics today. “Just once. Take a break. It’s Valentine’s Day,” she said. “Does it always have to...

In his first interview since a racist photograph in his medical school yearbook came to light on Feb. 1, 2019, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said that despite widespread calls for his resignation he is determined to spend the remaining three years of his term pursuing "equity."

A teaching moment from Virginia Democrats: The dogma lives loudly within them

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

If there were a state that could educate Americans on politics, and what happens when virtue smacks up against raw political power, you’d have to say it’s Virginia. Illinois is...

Mayoral candidate Bill Daley accepts an endorsement from the Chicago Journeymen Plumbers and Technical Engineers Local Union 130 on Feb. 7, 2019, skipping a televised debate with only a couple of hours' notice to the organizers.

Bill Daley doesn’t want Chicago to dwell on the past. Why?

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

Bill Daley, bro of boss, son of boss, was running an exemplary campaign for mayor of Chicago. Until the other day, when he ran away from a televised debate, reminding...

Maybe the mayor Chicago really needs is Bob Ross, and a little ASMR

May 31, 2019 at 4:12 p.m.

For a while now when writing about the Chicago mayoral race — the vulgar dance of mincing weasels and underfunded earnest reformers — I’ve been repeating a phrase: Wake up,...

Virginia Gov.-elect Ralph Northam, center, walks down the reviewing stand in 2018 with Lt. Gov.-elect Justin Fairfax, right, and Attorney General Mark Herring at the Capitol in Richmond, Va.

Politicians in blackface? For Democrats, beats defending late-term abortion.

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

America has been told, relentlessly, that the nation became officially and irrevocably unhinged in November 2016. That’s when a vulgar reality TV star flipped off the calcified Washington establishment, became...

Chicago mayoral candidate Susana Mendoza, third from left, answers a question during a candidate forum at UIC on Jan. 12, 2019.

Fox Chicago is right to set second mayoral debate, even if it’s a kiddie table

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

If anybody knows the answers, it’s candidate Bill Daley. His father, Richard J. Daley, was boss of Chicago for decades. His brother Richard M. Daley was also boss of Chicago...

Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan takes his spot before marching in the St. Patrick's Day Parade in Chicago in 2016.

Boss Madigan, the feds and a massage parlor refocus Chicago’s campaign for mayor

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

Wake up, Chicago. With just a little more than three weeks until the 2019 mayoral election, this is no time to be distracted by any shiny objects waved by political...

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