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Tag: Richard Nixon
MAGA delusion
Republican strategists think they can win over the Black vote by trashing Justice Jackson.
James Brown’s “Funky President (People It’s Bad)” is unfortunately relevant again
Written shortly after Nixon’s resignation, James Brown’s “Funky President (People It’s Bad)” speaks to today’s political corruption too.
Get me rewrite!
Aaron Sorkin rewrites Chicago history to help beat Trump.
Enemies of my enemy
Learning to love the never-Trump crowd at the Lincoln Project
Panic peddlers
Centrist Dems are using the 1972 election to scare voters away from Bernie.
Slow Burn re-creates the daily barrage of information during the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal
And it asks the question, which details from the current administration will still matter 20 years from now?
I guess we won’t have Rahm to kick around anymore
In a surprise decision, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has announced he won’t seek a third term in office.
Sy Hersh on his rough-and-tumble Chicago past: ‘At some point I realized I was in a tyranny’
An interview with the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, who discusses his Chicago origin story and more.
Frost/Nixon depicts the thoughtfulness and grace of . . . Richard Nixon?
Oh, the good old days when a former president admitted to criminal complicity on prime-time television!
The secret history of Illinois’s rent control prohibition
How conservatives preempted rent control before the public was ready to talk about it.
Local FBI chief under consideration for interim FBI director job, and other Chicago news
Also, a mayoral aide says that CPS needs $596 rather than $129 million to finish 2016-2017 school year.
In firing Comey, Trump pulls a Nixon—again
By sacking Comey, Trump shows a defiance of FBI investigators that even Nixon didn’t dare.
Chris Hayes says America’s founders would be offended by the modern police state
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.