Robert Caro fights to expose the truth while Rahm tries to hide it.
Tag: the atlantic
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Mayor Rahm rewrites history
Tall tales about Lincoln Yards and CPS are part of Rahm’s attempt to make us forget Mayor 1 Percent.
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Removal of Confederate statues tidies up southern history—but it doesn’t touch the grease stains
Meanwhile the proposed HBO series Confederate is based on the premise that the south won the Civil War.
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Fact vs. fiction: Which gets us closer to the truth?
Are journalists the only people left who care about facts?
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Sliding-scale fines could make Chicago traffic enforcement more equitable
Fining a pauper the same as a Pritzker can cause unjust economic hardship.
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Will McCarthy and other law enforcement leaders really get tough on mass incarceration?
Reducing our nation’s abhorrent incarceration rate will require a lot more than easing up on petty drug offenders.
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AI, narrative journalism, and the future of the human race
Narrative Science offers to take over the grunt work of journalism.
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The double life of Darryl Holliday, Chicago’s award-winning news drawer
The DNAinfo reporter talks about his day job and his passion for illustrated news.
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The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates talks about ‘The Case for Reparations’ in Chicago
“In America, we have difficulty with acknowledging the fact that where we are in a particular moment is irrevocably tied to our past.”
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The American military not so smartly inspected in the Atlantic
James Fallows’s January/February cover story on the American military could be a little more thoughtful.
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Does life at 75 have meaning?
On reading Zeke Emanuel in the light of Viktor Frankl’s time at Auschwitz
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On the case for reparations—and the National Review’s response
Those owed reparations are long dead, huh?
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The story behind the story of the game that changed college basketball
The story behind the story about the 1963 game that changed college basketball
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“Go ahead and drink as much as you want and can”
Make like the Finns and take a coffee break—it’s good for you