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City worker Alonzo Owens takes pictures of waves crashing on East 73rd Street as his crew works to clear a flooded area of South Shore Drive in Chicago on Jan. 11, 2020.

Column: A reasonable solution to Chicago’s Lake Michigan shoreline disaster

February 10, 2020 at 5:54 p.m.

It's time Chicagoans admit something: Lake Michigan is trying to kill us and it must be stopped. High water levels are wiping out beaches and eroding our shores. Fierce waves...

President Donald Trump in the East Room of the White House on Feb. 6, 2020, in Washington.

Column: Trump goes full wacko in post-acquittal ‘I Have a Scream’ speech: The Week in Review

February 7, 2020 at 12:00 a.m.

Great news, everyone! I'm kidding, there's no great news, it's all dreadful. Democrats dunked the Iowa caucuses into the deep fryer of incompetence, President Donald Trump was acquitted in the...

Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg addresses the crowd at St. Ambrose University on Jan. 31, 2020, in Davenport, Iowa.

Column: Iowa caucus debacle shows Democrats have one shot to beat Trump: Unite or all is lost

February 5, 2020 at 2:26 p.m.

OK, I need the following people to come here: liberals, Democrats, progressives, liberal-leaning centrists, alleged independents, guy at the coffee shop who doesn't believe in "political labels," and anyone else...

The Florida Atlantic University cheer team and band perform for President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump at a Super Bowl party at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Feb. 2, 2020.

Column: A soon-to-be-acquitted Trump’s State of the Union speech imagined: ‘Pound sand, dummies!’

February 3, 2020 at 12:08 p.m.

Utilizing my globally respected powers of precognition, I've obtained an advance copy of President Donald Trump's State of the Union speech, which he'll deliver Tuesday night before a joint session...

Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard law professor on President Donald Trump's legal team, at the Capitol on Jan. 29, 2020.

Column: GOP signs off on Trump dictatorship as Pritzker decries Illinois corruption: The Week in Review

February 1, 2020 at 2:27 p.m.

As I watched Republicans in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial enthusiastically lubricate America's slippery slope from democracy to dictatorship, I packed my bags for the journalist gulags at Guantanamo Bay,...

John Bolton, then the national security adviser, looks on as President Donald Trump talks to reporters in the Oval Office on Aug. 20, 2019.

Column: Fearing Bolton’s impeachment testimony, GOP senators battle possible outbreak of ‘information virus’

January 29, 2020 at 10:20 a.m.

Republican senators overseeing President Donald Trump's impeachment trial should be applauded for their brave efforts to contain a potentially damaging virus known as "information." Information, if it spreads to the...

Rex Huppke and the Greater Chicago Food Depository dancers (a group of employees, named by Rex) perform Jan. 22, 2020. Huppke was at the Greater Chicago Food Depository, 4100 W Ann Lurie Place, in Chicago, to announce the results of the Second-Annual Insult-A-Columnist Holiday Food Drive. The Rex Rock team raised over $102,000 in donations, beating the Rex Stinks team.

Column: Columnist fulfills promise, dances to celebrate $100,000 holiday food drive

February 2, 2020 at 12:51 p.m.

Let's cut to the chase: I'm fabulous. Those two words are not easy to write. They make my low self-esteem and general insecurity recoil, and the healthy dose of self-loathing...

Los Angeles Lakers forward Kobe Bryant, speaks with members of the media, before his team's game against the Chicago Bulls, at the United Center, in Chicago, on Feb. 21, 2016.

Column: Kobe Bryant’s death shook us because it shows how swiftly a life can end

January 26, 2020 at 7:45 p.m.

Kobe Bryant's death shook us. It's what happens when people larger than life — complete with their flaws and their failings — die suddenly. Too young. Too unexpected. Too much....

This artist sketch depicts impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., presenting an argument in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, on Jan. 22, 2020, in the Senate chamber at the Capitol in Washington. At right is Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.

Column: Coronavirus shows up in Chicago, Trump toadies make impeachment trial trivial: The Week in Review

January 24, 2020 at 9:46 a.m.

As petulant Republicans pouted like partisan putzes during the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, pathetically pandering to one pouty person in particular, an outbreak of a new virus prompted...

Impeachment manager Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., leaves the Senate chamber as the first day of the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump concludes on Capitol Hill in Washington, early on Jan. 22, 2020.

Column: Witnesses? At Trump’s impeachment trial? That’s crazy when your president is ‘perfect’

January 22, 2020 at 6:13 p.m.

As the (stupid) impeachment trial of (our amazing) President Donald Trump moves forward in the U.S. Senate, there's one looming question the doggone deranged Democrats keep asking: Why don't the...

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