Whet Moser

High-art video games, what really works to police violent crime, and where have the CPS librarians gone?

A Chicago Fed study finds that Illinois tried, and failed, to be a low-tax, low-spending state, and we're now paying the bill.

For decades, Donald Trump has embodied Americans' ideas and ideals of the wealthy and powerful. But he's also able to inhabit our archetype of the Regular Guy.

CPD officers who shot at Paul O'Neal may have violated procedure, but Supreme Court decisions set a high barrier for legal liability.

The high cost of cheap pork, how city leaders thwarted school integration, and CPS sports teams’ struggles.

No one on earth can throw like Aroldis Chapman, but is his singular skill set worth what the Cubs gave up? The numbers suggest it could be—if the team finds...

The evidence was against it in the first place, and half the city didn't even want it.

Why Illinois is losing professors, a guide to Maxwell Street Market, and visualizing Chicago as a ghost town.

We know how to help the victims of domestic violence (though there's still a lot of work to do). But we still don't know what to do about abusers.