With each passing day, I get more anxious about the Democratic strategy of promoting MAGA candidates like Darren Bailey in Republican primaries. Oh, I understand the logic—it’s an attempt to make sure they’re facing an opponent the polls show is easier to beat. In this case, internal Democratic polls apparently showed Bailey, an extremist, was […]
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How Governor Rauner is weaponizing the Illinois tax hike
He’s emerged from the budget crisis with a convenient cudgel in the run-up to the 2018 election.
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Let’s ditch the Electoral College for the sake of minority voters
It might help bring disenfranchised or disillusioned voters back into the fold.
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No group voted ‘never Trump’ as strong as black women
Although black women were Hillary Clinton’s strongest block of support, in Chicago they expressed mixed feelings at the polls.
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Political parties need to get with the country’s changing demographics—or get left behind
The real takeaway from the 2016 presidential campaign
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Exxxotica Chicago, the ‘comic con of porn,’ is secretly more conservative than a Trump rally
Porn and anime made strange bedfellows at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center.
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Dispatches from Chicago’s Trumpocalypse
Chicago was in the eye of the Trump storm on Friday.
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Raindance Reunion
Hollywood producer and Chicago native Michael Shamberg joins his comrades from the Vietnam-era radical video collective Raindance Corporation for their first-ever reunion Tuesday, Nov. 30 at Loyola University.