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Posted inBlogs

‘Obama Day’ could become a holiday in Illinois, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd February 8, 2017August 18, 2021

Also, Forrest Claypool accuses Rauner of “acting like Trump.”

Posted inBlogs

After a 15-month search, Smart Museum gets Gass

by Deanna Isaacs January 11, 2017August 18, 2021

Fifteen months after the departure of director Anthony Hirschel, the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum has announced that Alison Gass will be his successor.

Posted inFilm

How Experimenter and The Stanford Prison Experiment explore the psychology of control

by J.R. Jones October 29, 2015August 18, 2021

Two fact-based dramas revisit controversial research projects of the 1960s and ’70s.

"Begging and pleading with your wife only demonstrates that you'll take whatever she dishes out and come crawling back for more."
Posted inColumns & Opinion

What to do when a spouse equates porn with pedophilia

by Dan Savage September 4, 2014August 18, 2021

Dan Savage issues another DTMFA directive, plus bondage with a baby on board and marriage sans sex for 11 years and counting

The Internet's Own Boy
Posted inFilm

Two new documentaries ponder the market value of knowledge

by J.R. Jones June 24, 2014August 18, 2021

Ivory Tower and The Internet’s Own Boy ponder the market value of knowledge.

Roughly 13 of every 100 students at the Latin School of Chicago receive financial aid. Only a portion of those get full scholarships.
Posted inNews & Politics

Are Chicago’s elite private schools as diverse as they claim to be?

by Steve Bogira February 26, 2014August 18, 2021

The socioeconomic makeup of the city’s elite private schools is a public policy issue—or should be one.

Keith Richardson, an activist who wants to renew the fight against crime and unemployment, plans to be part of the August 28 anniversary march in Washington.
Posted inNews & Politics

A new generation of activists fights injustice, from school cuts to Trayvon Martin

by Mick Dumke August 21, 2013August 19, 2021

March on Washington anniversary: A new generation of activists fights for change, from school cuts to Trayvon Martin.

Posted inBlogs

Bad news and good news about racial prejudice

by Steve Bogira February 21, 2013August 19, 2021

Can unconscious bias be overcome?

Tim'm West performing at the Center on Halsted on December 15
Posted inMusic

Tim’m West and the masculine mystique

by B. David Zarley February 20, 2013August 19, 2021

Tim’m West has shown that there’s more than one way to be a black gay man.

Sharecropper Bud Fields and his family at home. Hale County, Alabama, 1935 or 1936.
Posted inArts & Culture

How FDR won the war of public perception

by Sam Worley December 10, 2012August 19, 2021

A review of Michele Landis Dauber’s The Sympathetic State: Disaster Relief and the Origins of the American Welfare State

Posted inBlogs

Reflecting on my editor’s reflections on Steve Jobs

by Michael Miner October 7, 2011August 19, 2021

“Success” and Steve Jobs.

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