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People rally at 71st Street and Jeffery Boulevard after the jury's guilty verdict was delivered on Oct. 5, 2018, in Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke's trial for the shooting death of Laquan McDonald.

Column: Chicago’s Rahm Emanuel as ambassador to Japan? Is this a ‘Saturday Night Live’ skit?

September 4, 2021 at 9:39 a.m.

Former Chicago mayor and noted profanity enthusiast Rahm Emanuel has been nominated by President Joe Biden to be the next ambassador to Japan. That sounds like a "Saturday Night Live"...

Column: A ‘herculean’ Afghanistan evacuation: Why we should pause to appreciate what our military accomplished

August 31, 2021 at 8:31 a.m.

As we approached President Joe Biden's deadline for withdrawing U.S. military forces from a two-decade war in Afghanistan, Americans learned that virtually everyone with a social media account or platform...

A horse pokes his head out from a stall at Tukaway Farm in Elgin in 2017.

Column: A letter from a horse: Please stop taking ivermectin to treat COVID-19. That’s our medicine, you ninnies.

August 27, 2021 at 3:37 p.m.

Through my numerous sources in the animal kingdom, I received the following letter from a horse. He's apparently upset about a new fad among COVID-19 vaccine conspiracists: using ivermectin, a...

Medical staff moves the body of a dead COVID-19 patient to a funeral home van at the Willis-Knighton Medical Center in Shreveport, Louisiana, on Aug. 18, 2021.

Column: COVID-19 vaccine mandates are coming. The willfully unvaccinated are about to see their world shrink.

August 26, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

I have bad news for the willfully unvaccinated: COVID-19 vaccine mandates are coming, and your world is about to shrink to the size of a tweet. Vaccine mandates, with medical...

Amazon package lockers, shown on Aug. 23, 2021, are outside the Independence Park Bungalow near the tennis courts, on the Northwest Side.

Column: Keep Amazon lockers out of Chicago parks, Mr. Bezos. Just strap one on me instead.

August 24, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

Rectangular banks of Amazon lockers are sprouting like geometric invasive species in parks across Chicago. You may have spotted a few in your travels, but if not, allow me to...

A satellite photo provided by Maxar Technologies shows people on the tarmac at Kabul's international airport, also known as Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 16, 2021. The day after the Afghan president fled and the Taliban installed themselves in the presidential palace, uncertainty reigned and with thousands desperate to flee the country, Kabul's airport was a scene of chaos.

Column: Biden’s Afghanistan fiasco is also Trump’s fault and Obama’s and … ugh, nuance is hard

August 20, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

As a VERY IMPORTANT voice in the American pundit-sphere, I would like to apologize for not offering a near-instantaneous opinion on President Joe Biden's handling of the U.S. troop withdrawal...

Visitors walk along reopened Navy Pier on May 2, 2021, in Chicago.

Column: Enforcing Chicago’s indoor mask mandate: Dunce caps, air horns and back-alley seating

August 19, 2021 at 9:54 a.m.

I, for one, applaud Chicago officials for reinstating the city's indoor mask mandate. First off, as a person who struggles with IFH (Intense Face Handsomeness), I've long hated walking around...

In this long-exposure photograph, a speed camera in the 600 block of East Morgan Drive illuminates as motor vehicle traffic passes on Aug. 12, 2021, in Chicago.

Column: Welcome to Chicago, you’ve been ticketed for speeding, blinking and not walking right. Please pay up!

August 17, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

Welcome to the city of Chicago! That sentence ended with an exclamation point, so I hope you read it with an appropriate level of enthusiasm. If not, you will receive...

People walk in the 300 block of West Adams Street in Chicago's Loop on Aug. 9, 2021.

Column: Census says population of ‘worse-than-Afghanistan’ Chicago grew? I demand a recount!

August 13, 2021 at 1:24 p.m.

I've been told repeatedly that people are fleeing Chicago in droves because it's a fiery, unlivable, rat-infested hellscape. So you can imagine my shock when new U.S. census data showed...

Anti-vaccination activists protest the proof of vaccination requirement to get into the Foo Fighters show as Madison Square Garden reopens with the first full capacity concert since March 2020 on June 20, 2021, in New York City.

Column: As COVID cases surge, the unvaccinated-by-choice should know they’re being judged harshly

August 12, 2021 at 11:12 a.m.

As COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations and deaths rise again across the country, there rests, on the tips of many vaccinated Americans' tongues, an exasperated rant waiting to be set free. It's...

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