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Home » Columns & Opinion » Opinion » Page 2

Category: Opinion

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Politics is wrestling

by Leonard C. Goodman September 16, 2020August 18, 2021

The fights are fake but the folks pulling the strings behind the scenes are real.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Last hired, first fired

by Evan F. Moore September 10, 2020August 18, 2021

After his controversial firing from St. Laurence, Oak Lawn High School football coach Harold Blackmon teaches his son life lessons.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

The false hope of Ghislaine Maxwell’s arrest

by Leonard C. Goodman July 22, 2020August 18, 2021

If history is any guide, Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime partner is unlikely to pay the price for their crimes.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Chicago, racism is hurting us all

by José Rico and Pilar Audair-Reed June 29, 2020August 18, 2021

Together, we can fight racism, rebuild our neighborhoods, and fight for the future of our city.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Let the people decide

by Leonard C. Goodman June 17, 2020August 18, 2021

The major parties benefit too much from our rigged system to want reform.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

On being a single dad, a journalist, and a Black south-sider during the pandemic

by Evan F. Moore May 12, 2020August 18, 2021

It involves juggling my kid’s Zoom-call cameos and a new beat, and checking in on my homies.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Investing in local news is more important than ever

by Daniel Ash, Lolly Bowean, Kathy Im, Channing Lenert and Andres Torres May 7, 2020August 18, 2021

Particularly in communities of color disproportionately affected by coronavirus, access to information is critical.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Once again, Congress will let Wall Street pillage Main Street

by Leonard C. Goodman May 5, 2020August 18, 2021

Coronavirus bailouts are helping big donors while leaving small businesses and families behind.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

We don’t have to prove our ‘American-ness’

by Andy Kang April 10, 2020August 18, 2021

On rejecting anti-Asian American rhetoric and standing up to hate

Posted inColumns & Opinion

‘I wasn’t sentenced to die’

by Max Blumenthal April 7, 2020August 18, 2021

As COVID-19 spreads through Illinois prisons, inmates and advocates seek clemencies and medical furloughs to save lives.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

How to protect children from more than coronavirus

by Julia Strehlow April 2, 2020August 18, 2021

Child sexual abuse thrives in isolation, but there are steps we can all take to prevent it.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Profits over people

by Leonard C. Goodman March 31, 2020August 18, 2021

America’s dangerously inefficient response to COVID-19 is what happens when plutocrats—not politicians—direct public policy.

Posted inArts & Culture

COVID-19 has Chicago theater down, but not out

by Almanya Narula March 25, 2020August 18, 2021

Here’s a reminder of what the theater community has done in the last five years.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

The new Cold War with China has cost lives against coronavirus

by Max Blumenthal March 24, 2020August 18, 2021

More than any event since the financial crash, the coronavirus pandemic has exposed the rotten foundation of American empire.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Torture survivors’ silence will not protect the Chicago Police Department

by Cindy Eigler and Aislinn Pulley March 10, 2020August 18, 2021

An effort by the Fraternal Order of Police to prosecute survivors for telling their stories is an all-to-common abuse tactic.

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