Harsh penalties for gun crimes don’t make communities safer.
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Anti-abortion activists float a new argument: ageism
Move over, Grandpa. You think ageism is your cause? Last week, Created Equal, an Ohio-based organization opposed to ending unwanted pregnancies came to town, making stops at the city’s largest […]
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Just like we told you
We’ve reached an “I told you so” moment, dear readers, where I get to say . . . I told you so! It was roughly one year ago that I […]
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Do straight guys send each other dick pics?
A relationship defined by sketchy behavior, gaslighting, and snooping
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A fall edition
These preview issues always remind me that things are happening in our city. … creating this jam-packed issue, which teases film screenings, book releases, art exhibitions, and more, I’m in no hurry to hunker down indoors and wait for winter—Chicago is calling.
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The U.S. and the Holocaust
Starting Sunday, for three consecutive nights, WTTW will air a new six-hour Ken Burns documentary series, The U.S. and the Holocaust. Burns and his filmmaking partners, Lynn Novick and Sarah […]
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The choice is yours, voters
Content warning: This column contains a reference to sexual violence. As I write, it’s Labor Day—traditionally, the start of the election season. That means “normal” people start to sorta pay […]
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Close to the end of ’Vol. 51’
We’re close to the end of “Volume 51” in a few issues. Yes, that means that we have survived nearly 51 years of publication, a feat that perhaps no one […]
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School me once
A small-town teacher just wants someone to go down on her.
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You can’t smother romantic feelings
While he’s hosting your birthday party and playing with your testicles, he is not your boyfriend.
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Hocus-pocus
As the years roll by, mayors and aldermen come and go but the great Tax Increment Financing scam stays forever. Oh, TIFs, TIFs, TIFs. Haven’t written about them in awhile. […]
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Hike the beaten path, don’t get off on it
Hemorrhoids, cock rings, and more quickies
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Pox Americana
Last Sunday, stuffed with antibiotics, numbed by painkillers, and facing a date with an oral surgeon the next morning, I made my way to the International Museum of Surgical Science […]