The title track from Wasted Youth’s debut album, Reagan’s In
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Free Toni Preckwinkle!
The Cook County Board president catches shit on behalf of the ghost of Ronald Reagan
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Apply now to Newt University
Offering a Bachelor of Conservative Arts program second to none
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Remember that awkward coffee date?
A review of Graze , a new publication about the culture of food.
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Will the 80s ever end?
The MCA’s “This Will Have Been” takes a comprehensive look at art in the 80s
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Grandiose Old Party
Only Newt Gingrich can protect us from Obama’s frightening radicalism, Gingrich says
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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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Repeat after me: No new taxes
In the Iowa debate, a Fox anchor cornered the candidates into a loyalty oath.
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Fire and brimstone and BS
It’s easy to mock those who gave up their life savings to spread the word of the pending Apocalypse. How, we ask, could they be so gullible? Think of their children, their futures, their mortgages. What could have compelled them to fracture relationships with their families and look so foolish? Faith, I suppose, is a […]
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Print the Reagan Myth: False History Repeats Itself
A strange desire for Obama to be Bush III.
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Reagan Revisited
A review of Peter Carpenter’s My Fellow Americans, an evening-length piece about Ronald Reagan, at Hamlin Park.