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Home » Richard Nixon

Tag: Richard Nixon

Michael Myers in his signature white mask grabs Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie, who cries in agony
Posted inFilm

After 42 years, Halloween finally ends

by Catey Sullivan October 27, 2022October 31, 2022

Halloween Ends is notable mainly for its cockamamie plot and its reverence for the original.

Posted inOn Politics

MAGA delusion

by Ben Joravsky April 13, 2022April 13, 2022

Republican strategists think they can win over the Black vote by trashing Justice Jackson.

Posted inMusic

James Brown’s “Funky President (People It’s Bad)” is unfortunately relevant again

by Jamie Ludwig February 15, 2021August 18, 2021

Written shortly after Nixon’s resignation, James Brown’s “Funky President (People It’s Bad)” speaks to today’s political corruption too.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Get me rewrite!

by Ben Joravsky October 21, 2020August 18, 2021

Aaron Sorkin rewrites Chicago history to help beat Trump.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Enemies of my enemy

by Ben Joravsky July 7, 2020August 18, 2021

Learning to love the never-Trump crowd at the Lincoln Project

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Panic peddlers

by Ben Joravsky March 4, 2020August 18, 2021

Centrist Dems are using the 1972 election to scare voters away from Bernie.

Posted inNews & Politics

Slow Burn re-creates the daily barrage of information during the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal

by Brianna Wellen October 23, 2018August 18, 2021

And it asks the question, which details from the current administration will still matter 20 years from now?

Posted inBlogs

I guess we won’t have Rahm to kick around anymore

by Ben Joravsky September 4, 2018August 18, 2021

In a surprise decision, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has announced he won’t seek a third term in office.

Posted inBlogs

Sy Hersh on his rough-and-tumble Chicago past: ‘At some point I realized I was in a tyranny’

by Ryan Smith June 29, 2018August 18, 2021

An interview with the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, who discusses his Chicago origin story and more.

Posted inArts & Culture

Frost/Nixon depicts the thoughtfulness and grace of . . . Richard Nixon?

by Dmitry Samarov April 26, 2018August 18, 2021

Oh, the good old days when a former president admitted to criminal complicity on prime-time television!

Posted inBlogs

Five must-see lo-o-o-ong films

by Patrick Friel February 9, 2018August 18, 2021

Five very long film masterpieces.

Posted inNews & Politics

The secret history of Illinois’s rent control prohibition

by Maya Dukmasova May 16, 2017August 18, 2021

How conservatives preempted rent control before the public was ready to talk about it.

Posted inBlogs

Local FBI chief under consideration for interim FBI director job, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd May 11, 2017August 18, 2021

Also, a mayoral aide says that CPS needs $596 rather than $129 million to finish 2016-2017 school year.

Posted inBlogs

In firing Comey, Trump pulls a Nixon—again

by Ben Joravsky May 10, 2017August 18, 2021

By sacking Comey, Trump shows a defiance of FBI investigators that even Nixon didn’t dare.

Posted inNews & Politics

Chris Hayes says America’s founders would be offended by the modern police state

by Ryan Smith March 28, 2017August 18, 2021

In his new book A Colony in a Nation, the journalist and MSNBC host compares current-day policing in cities like Chicago to British rule just before the American Revolution.

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