The Republicans “fight” against cancel culture is as phony as their so-called defense of free expression.
Tag: The New York Times
Posted inCity Life
The Reader’s stay-at-home chronicles: day 67
What we’re reading, watching, listening to, etc., to pass the time.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
A losing strategy
Let’s get this straight: It’s OK for centrists to bash lefties but it’s politically incorrect for lefties to fight back.
Posted inBlogs
Rahm & Rauner help Amazon play New York City and Virginia like a bunch of saps
Bringing Amazon HQ2 to Chicago was the dream of only Mayor Rahm and his faithful sidekick Governor Rauner—both of whom will be leaving office shortly, thank you very much.
Posted inBlogs
Joravsky’s election predictions—going where the New York Times is too scared to venture
Ben Joravsky offers predictions for the 2018 midterm elections—including those for both houses of Congress.
Posted inBlogs
The Chinese company at the heart of the proposed Kushner deal has ties to Michael Madigan
Anbang Insurance Group uses the firm of Madigan & Getzendanner to handle its Chicago property taxes.
Posted inBlogs
Think you want to be a travel writer? A pro describes the ‘not sexy’ reality of the job
Freelance travel writer Elaine Glusac: “I’ve been projectile-vomited on on a plane.”
Posted inNews & Politics
The missing link in the War on Poverty
To better help the urban poor, government must address not just their deprivation but also their segregation.
Posted inBlogs
Mayor Rahm discovers winter can be cold in Chicago
Close the schools in Chiberia, or open them? The mayor tried to have it both ways.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Plenty of time to consider the Times
As the New York Times has shown of late, there are errors and there are errors.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
The undoing of a president’s mystique
What would have happened to JFK if he’d been scrutinized in the same way as Obama?
Posted inNews & Politics
Fifty years later, participants in the March on Washington still hoping for justice
Organizers of the Chicago contingent in the 1963 March on Washington say it’s time for another movement.
Posted inBlogs
Can “Abenomics” change the national discussion on reviving America’s economy?
A new Japanese economic regime has the approval of the Economist and Paul Krugman, but can it catch on elsewhere?
Posted inMusic
What music’s outsiders and oddballs got up to before the Internet
The coffee-table book and CD set Enjoy the Experience documents the weird bygone world of private-press records.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Twentieth-century glamour, on auction at Leslie Hindman
“Skahzzi” gowns and other vintage clothes are going up for auction at Leslie Hindman.