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Charles Percy, UNO, and the ever-shifting political winds
I never met or covered former U.S. Senator Charles Percy (I was still in junior high school when his political career ended) but I’ve always found him fascinating—evidence of a once-vibrant species that’s now essentially extinct. Percy died over the weekend at 91, and while the Tribune‘s obit referred to him somewhat wistfully as a […]
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Would Otto Kerner’s Conviction Actually Have Been Expunged?
In light of the way it handled other honest services fraud convictions in the late 1980s, we shouldn’t assume that the Seventh Circuit would have overturned Otto Kerner’s.
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His Father’s Honor
Why the son of a shamed former Illinois governor is so interested in the Supreme Court’s review of the “honest services” law
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Jonah Goldberg Thinks Hard
Jonah Goldberg recalls George McGovern as an intellectual hypocrite
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TIFF Review: The Most Dangerous Man in America
A new documentary profiles the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers.
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Edwin Guthman and the Kennedys — Too Close?
Edwin Guthman was a great journalist, but should he have gone to work for Robert Kennedy?
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Sympathy for the Devil?
Progressive scribe Rick Perlstein made his reputation finding the good in conservatives. Then they really started screwing up the country.