An interfaith demand for justice in Palestine and Israel
Category: Essay
Posted inFood & Drink
Silent senses
For some the long-haul COVID-19 loss of taste and smell is more than an inconvenience—it’s a loss of livelihood.
Posted inNews & Politics
Tales from the polls
What a Reader contributor saw as a first-time election judge
Posted inNews & Politics
Essays as group therapy
How are Black writers coping? We’re chanting, fact-checking history, and envisioning a tiny future.
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Three walks in the woods
The Forest Preserves of Cook County, which cover 70,000 acres, are an inexhaustible source of social-distance-compliant space.
Posted inNews & Politics
Covert
On being a mother, the apocalypse of the interior life, and sheltering in place on the other side of Lake Michigan.
Posted inNews & Politics
David Reifman has left the building
As the Department of Planning and Development commissioner departs, megadevelopers lose one of their biggest cheerleaders.
Posted inNews & Politics
Governor Pritzker, the MLA, and the wealth gap
Very different solutions to the same problem all come down to the size of the pockets involved.
Posted inNews & Politics
What Ari Emanuel’s unabashed volatility in Hollywood says about Rahm Emanuel’s public-image problem in Chicago
In its portrayal of Ari’s celebrated dickishness, Powerhouse invites a comparison with the superagent’s hotheaded Chicago mayor brother.
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I’m voting for Hillary Clinton, but I don’t vote with my vagina
I’m voting for Clinton with a brain that understands what having a vagina means.
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In Chicago, mental health workers are armed and dangerous
For blacks with mental illness, the odds of coming away unscathed from an encounter with police are stacked overwhelmingly against them.
Posted inNews & Politics
Why I quit social media cold turkey in 2015
The feeling of connection offered by Twitter and Instagram was an addiction—one that’s been hard to kick.