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Home » Maureen Dowd

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Posted inBlogs

Police chief: Poverty, ‘society issues,’ not CPD, are causing the gun violence surge, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd September 7, 2016August 18, 2021

Also, how meeting Mother Teresa changed a ex-gang leader’s life.

Posted inBlogs

This election is a cabaret, old chum

by Michael Miner March 7, 2016August 18, 2021

Is Trump his own man?

Posted inBlogs

Who’s ultimately responsible for the Ray Rice disgrace?

by Michael Miner September 16, 2014August 18, 2021

The media look for the ultimate power—and scapegoat—in the NFL’s latest scandal.

Colorado is generating millions of dollars in taxes each month from the legal sale of cannabis products—while authorities in Chicago are spending money to arrest people for carrying pot.
Posted inColumns & Opinion

It’s high time Illinois made some money from marijuana

by Ben Joravsky June 11, 2014August 18, 2021

A trip to Denver shows the financial promise of legalizing pot.

Posted inBlogs

Can we afford to let Google remember everything?

by Michael Miner May 21, 2014August 18, 2021

Is everything everybody’s business forever?

Posted inBlogs

The Cambridge confrontation: seeking the meaning

by Michael Miner July 28, 2009August 19, 2021

The conflagration between Sergeant James Crowley and Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. in Cambridge, with added kindling compliments of the president, has served the pundits of America as the newest visitation of That Which Must Be Written About.

Posted inBlogs

Missing the forest

by Whet Moser May 19, 2009August 19, 2021

Maureen Dowd’s quasi-plagiarism should be encouraged, since it’s a solid improvement over Maureen Dowd not plagiarizing.

Posted inBlogs

Who needs time to think?

by Michael Miner October 8, 2008August 19, 2021

When the debates end, the New York Times cranks out punditry on the fly.

Posted inBlogs

Just as we suspected!

by Michael Miner September 28, 2007August 19, 2021

An imperfect Media Matters survey finds that a lot more conservatives than progressives show up in the nation’s newspapers.

Posted inBlogs

Never forget that Barack Obama is a Chicago politician

by Whet Moser March 21, 2007August 19, 2021

Don’t forget where “Obambi” cut his teeth.

Posted inNews & Politics

Pickett’s Charge/The View From Across the Street/In Loving Memory of a Real SOB

by Michael Miner October 10, 2002August 19, 2021

Pickett’s Charge Debra Pickett trembles on the cusp of stardom. She knows it; her readers know it, colleagues at the Sun-Times know it–though none have called to complain she’s a callow princess unfit to mop the floors at midnight (which is the sort of thing I heard years ago when Richard Roeper trembled on the […]

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