The WNBA season is over. Brittney Griner remains in a Russian prison. What’s next?
Tag: war on drugs
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Bring Brittney home
Brittney Griner, imprisoned in Russia, was honored at the All-Star Weekend.
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Interview with podcaster Aaron Smith: ‘Get to the root of the person’
Season three of Escaping the Odds, a podcast about entrepreneurship for the formerly incarcerated, dropped Tuesday.
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Johnny MAGA
Having been exposed to the wit and wisdom of John Catanzara for a couple of years, I’ve reached a rather obvious conclusion about the president of the local Fraternal Order of Police. It would be better off for everybody—Catanzara included—if he just hurried up and moved to Florida, where he’ll probably be living soon enough, […]
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Winners and losers in the war on drugs
When it comes to marijuana, big-money political donors win while the rest of us keep losing.
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Why the nationwide strike against ‘modern-day slavery’ may not reach Illinois. And why it’s already here.
IDOC’s job opportunities are so few and repression of organizing so intense that few inmates may be joining the nationwide labor strike. That doesn’t mean they’re not resisting.
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The Pitchfork Music Festival announces its second wave of acts for 2018
Reader intern Rachel Yang returns to the Violet Hour to see who will join the 14 previously announced performers at this summer’s Pitchfork Music Festival.
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Cook County state’s attorney: Time to lay off the pot prosecutions
State’s attorney Anita Alvarez says her office will try to send people caught with small amounts of cannabis and hard drugs into treatment instead of jail.
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Talking to the director of the El Chapo Guzman documentary that comes to the Patio on Friday
A conversation with the prolific TV journalist-turned-filmmaker, whose film Es el Chapo? opens in Chicago on Friday.
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UPDATE: Drug trafficking Flores twins sentenced to 14 years
The most prolific traffickers in Chicago’s history receive relatively light sentences.
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Forget about Sun Kil Moon, here’s some new TV on the Radio
Press play on “Careful You” and think about Sun Kil Moon’s “War on Drugs” some other time.
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Mayor Rahm does his best Richard Nixon
Mayor Rahm Emanuel takes a stand against recreational marijuana in an appeal to Chicago’s non-existent “Silent Majority.”
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Police chief: Time to trade the war on drugs for a war on guns
Garry McCarthy again calls for tougher sentences for gun offenders.
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Could reparations for African-Americans help reduce violence?
A conversation with veteran reparations activist and political organizer Conrad Worrill.
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Swimming in the muck (of Chicago politics)
Suddenly it’s election season again—and swimming season too.