There were two crowds in front of Saints Volodymyr and Olha Ukrainian Catholic Church in Ukrainian Village on a frigid afternoon last week. One was the medieval crowd that’s always there, on the church’s iconic mural—a depiction of the baptism of the Ukrainian people. The other consisted of several hundred live and livid Chicagoans reacting […]
Tag: Vladimir Putin
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Queer Ukrainians in Chicago fear the worst amid Russian invasion
Russia’s violent history toward the LGBTQ+ community has many worried that anti-queer violence will be meted out in Ukraine.
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See no evil
Democrats and Republicans have their own reasons for looking the other way when Putin’s operatives hacked into the Illinois State Board of Elections’ computers.
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We Are Pussy Riot (or) Everything Is P.R. questions the role of spectators in protest art
There is method to the mess in this Red Tape Theatre production.
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Pussy Riot use their Riot Fest set to demand justice for a fallen comrade—and for all the oppressed
The likely poisoning of Pussy Riot member Peter Verzilov this week didn’t keep the group from Riot Fest, where they delivered loud criticisms of Russia and the United States.
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Daniel Biss to rock the vote onstage with Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot in Chicago
The Democratic governor candidate will make a campaign stop at the show at Subterranean on Tuesday night.
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The public thinks Trump-media relations are unhealthy. It couldn’t be more wrong.
Counterintuitively, current tensions between the White House and the media have made the relationship healthier.
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With collusion question, Mike Quigley probes Trump team’s connection to Russia
The Illinois rep and House Intelligence Committee member asks what Trump knew about the Russian hacks and when he knew it.
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Making sense of Putin’s ‘ghastly trick’
Piecing through what we know—and what we think we know—about ongoing investigations into Russian interference with U.S. presidential elections.
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Liberals are finally listening to Thomas Frank about what’s wrong with the Democratic Party
The author of Listen Liberal looks prescient in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory.
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Chicago Tribune’s conservative cartoonist takes a bite out of Trump
Scott Stantis wields the cartoonist’s unique license to mock against the current president.
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Here’s proof that pro-Trump trolls don’t have a sense of humor
The star of Barron Trump: Up Past Bedtime has received death threats online.
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Obama’s farewell speech vs. the salacious Trump memo: a tale of two Americas
While President Obama was making a high-minded appeal to our better angels, BuzzFeed was offering some sordid and sleazy allegations about Donald Trump.
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Thursday was actually a bad day for Trump
Millions of voting Americans—including hundreds of thousands in Chicago—come from those Eastern European countries Trump might not bother to defend
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Pundits say presidents who won’t lead the country into war have trouble leading it anywhere
It’s in America’s nature to be at war because freedom always needs defending.