Jessica Disu didn’t always consider herself a police abolitionist, but an appearance on Fox News in 2016 made her the face of the movement. In a Reader article that same year she said, “our police is not working—we need to replace it with something new.”
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Chappaquiddick: How to spin a movie about spin?
A new drama about the Ted Kennedy scandal seeks a mass audience in a politically polarized climate.
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Second City E.T.C.’s Gaslight District examines the perils of living in the age of alternative facts
But you can’t escape the zone of truth.
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Uncle Dan says: Don’t fuck Nazis
Laying down the law post Charlottesville, and more
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Bill Ayers believes opposition to Trump should come from the people—not the Democratic Party
Retired UIC professor and author Bill Ayers says modern revolutionaries also don’t have to look to the 1960s for inspiration.
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Trump Tower now looks like a middle finger to Chicago
Donald Trump’s River North edifice, recently an object of playful scorn, is now a monolithic reminder of a sobering reality.
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Donald Trump calls for ‘stop and frisk’ in ‘out of control’ Chicago, and other news
Also, Hillary Clinton isn’t close to raising as much money in Chicago as Barack Obama did in 2008.
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Not even our bookstores are safe from Silicon Valley’s growing might
Amazon’s brick-and-mortar store in Wrigleyville is just the latest example of tech’s “Frightful Five” remaking our world.
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Trump says he could solve Chicago’s gun violence ‘in a week,’ and other news
Also, crime in Lakeview is on the rise in 2016, but it’s still safer than a decade ago.
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Before he was at Fox, Roger Ailes ran a nasty Senate campaign in Illinois
Fresh off his success with George H.W. Bush, Ailes got behind Lynn Martin’s quest for a Senate seat.
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Roger Ailes accuser ‘Susan’ waited decades for someone to hear her out
For nearly 25 years, she felt like a lone voice. That changed after former Fox anchor Gretchen Carlson’s lawsuit against Ailes.
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Man with a twat thoroughly despairs
Will he ever have a love life, or is his being trans the problem? Plus: Should the fiance of a thrice-married serial cheater be warned? and “How can we stop the dumbing down of our society by Fox News?”
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Michelle Fields, Donald Trump, and the slow death of actual journalism
Is defense of Fields genuine solidarity or ax-grinding by partisanship?
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The X-Files’s obsession with UFOs seems quaint in the era of the super PAC
The conspiracy-minded premise of The X-Files has aged much worse than its cast.
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Fox News’s barbecue food-list scandal shows the listicle’s pitfalls
Fox News published a barbecue list that’s as white as a cream cheese sandwich at a D.A.R. tea.