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Posted inColumns & Opinion

Mayor Rahm v. Robert Caro

by Ben Joravsky May 3, 2019August 18, 2021

Robert Caro fights to expose the truth while Rahm tries to hide it.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Mayor Rahm rewrites history

by Ben Joravsky March 22, 2019August 18, 2021

Tall tales about Lincoln Yards and CPS are part of Rahm’s attempt to make us forget Mayor 1 Percent.

Posted inBlogs

Removal of Confederate statues tidies up southern history—but it doesn’t touch the grease stains

by Michael Miner August 31, 2017August 18, 2021

Meanwhile the proposed HBO series Confederate is based on the premise that the south won the Civil War.

Posted inBlogs

Fact vs. fiction: Which gets us closer to the truth?

by Michael Miner December 27, 2016August 18, 2021

Are journalists the only people left who care about facts?

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Sliding-scale fines could make Chicago traffic enforcement more equitable

by John Greenfield September 28, 2016August 18, 2021

Fining a pauper the same as a Pritzker can cause unjust economic hardship.

Posted inBlogs

Will McCarthy and other law enforcement leaders really get tough on mass incarceration?

by Steve Bogira October 21, 2015August 18, 2021

Reducing our nation’s abhorrent incarceration rate will require a lot more than easing up on petty drug offenders.

Posted inBlogs

AI, narrative journalism, and the future of the human race

by Michael Miner May 19, 2015August 18, 2021

Narrative Science offers to take over the grunt work of journalism.

Posted inBlogs

The double life of Darryl Holliday, Chicago’s award-winning news drawer

by Michael Miner April 28, 2015August 18, 2021

The DNAinfo reporter talks about his day job and his passion for illustrated news.

Posted inBlogs

The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates talks about ‘The Case for Reparations’ in Chicago

by Lucy Wang April 2, 2015August 18, 2021

“In America, we have difficulty with acknowledging the fact that where we are in a particular moment is irrevocably tied to our past.”

Posted inBlogs

The American military not so smartly inspected in the Atlantic

by Michael Miner January 6, 2015August 18, 2021

James Fallows’s January/February cover story on the American military could be a little more thoughtful.

Posted inBlogs

Researchers rouse drowsing elders to tell them they’re happy

by Michael Miner December 9, 2014August 18, 2021

“Embrace your cohorts”

Posted inBlogs

Does life at 75 have meaning?

by Michael Miner October 7, 2014August 18, 2021

On reading Zeke Emanuel in the light of Viktor Frankl’s time at Auschwitz

Posted inBlogs

On the case for reparations—and the National Review’s response

by Michael Miner May 29, 2014August 18, 2021

Those owed reparations are long dead, huh?

The 1963 NCAA regional semifinals pitted all-white Mississippi State against integrated Loyola—and helped change the color of college basketball.
Posted inColumns & Opinion

The story behind the story of the game that changed college basketball

by Michael Miner March 6, 2013August 19, 2021

The story behind the story about the 1963 game that changed college basketball

Posted inBlogs

“Go ahead and drink as much as you want and can”

by Kate Schmidt December 5, 2012August 19, 2021

Make like the Finns and take a coffee break—it’s good for you

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