Another black man was killed by the Chicago Police Department last night: The shooting happened about 5:30 p.m. in the 2000 block of East 71st Street, according to police and Chicago Fire Department o
Working under the assumption that people could use something to cling to as the world burns, and would maybe like some new music suggestions for the coming holiday, here’s the second quarter ins
Bloomberg reports: The Trump administration plans to announce its withdrawal from the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday, making good on a pledge to leave a body it has long accused of hyp
Today is Juneteenth, which commemorates the final official emancipation of African-descended people from racial slavery in the United States on this day (June 19) in 1865. Far more than the 4th of Ju
Everyone has no doubt read/seen/heard stories now about Casa Padre, the Brownsville, Texas Walmart-turned-children’s-prison that currently houses nearly 1,500 juvenile immigrant boys. About a we
I haven’t lived in Wisconsin in three years now. Still, few things in politics make me happier than Scott Walker and Wisconsin Republicans failing. WI Senate District 1 flipped 21 points red to
Like all the other writers here, I am very, very pro-labor. (Like all the other writers here, I also understand that labor organizations sometimes make reprehensible political choices and alliances ou
While the NFL was embarrassing itself once again yesterday by censoring its players’ political speech, a related story was unfolding in the NBA world. Last January, Milwaukee Bucks’ player