Column: When you watch Aaron Sorkin’s Chicago 7 movie, remember juror Mrs. Jean Fritz
Today would be a good day to remember Mrs. Jean Fritz. Fritz was a juror in the Chicago 7 trial, which is back in the news thanks to Aaron Sorkin's...
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Column: Do you find yourself hating Trump and hating that you’ve become a hater?
Hate. It's the other pandemic. It's a contagious virus that easily infects people afflicted by the preexisting conditions of ignorance and fear. Now, under the influence of the superspreader known...
Column: From Chicago’s South Side to a seat on the federal court: RIP to a trailblazing judge who played a sweet sax
Blanche Manning died in late September without the public fanfare typically offered to trailblazers, which is why one of her fellow judges alerted me to her death the other day....
Column: The year of voting nervously, very, very nervously
My 2020 presidential ballot came in the mail last week. I plucked it from the mailbox and held it nervously, the way you might hold a fragile heirloom or a...
Column: She’s a teacher out to create little free children’s libraries — full of books that go beyond white kids and animals
Tracy Aiden woke up Saturday morning with a headache and, to use her word, "supernervous." It was an important day. Her big idea was coming to fruition. Time for the...
Column: Uncivil War: A poem about Donald Trump
This is the latest in my series of occasional TrumPoems chronicling the presidency of Donald Trump, based, as always, on his own words and acts. UNCIVIL WAR Well, whoopee! RBG...
Column: RBG lies in state. John Lewis is gone. It’s like losing both parents at once. What now?
John Lewis and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. They were the parents. They led us and taught us and helped to make us who we are. And now they're both gone. For...
Column: Take a deep breath and repeat, ‘Despair is not an option.’ An election season to-do list.
We've entered a new season. It's not just the season of autumn, it's election season, six weeks that stretch before us like an eternity and a nanosecond, weeks that risk...
Column: Anna Douglass may soon get her name on a Chicago park. Who was she, in addition to being Frederick Douglass’ wife?
Raniya Thomas, who is 13, devoted hours of her summer vacation this year to changing the name of Stephen A. Douglas Park on Chicago's West Side. Four years ago, students...
Column: Have you become obsessed with bugs or hummingbirds? In the pandemic, you’re not alone.
In the midst of the grief, confusion and anger of the past few months, many Americans have developed a new obsession with the creepy little things in life, by which...