Poll: Meep! Meep! Get out of the way for another Tweet of the Week poll
Instructions: Click the box next to each tweet that amuses you -- no limit to the number of choices. Voting closes Friday at noon Chicago time. Winner is published in...
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Column: Stop clapping for Tinker Bell! Ban cryptocurrency and rein in ransomware attacks.
A surging cybercrime epidemic is stealing headlines from the waning viral pandemic. And the best policy vaccine will be to ban the use of Bitcoin and the other imaginary currencies...
Column: Catching you up on the heartbreak and happiness in my family
I used to joke that my mother remembers John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt better than she remembers me. We assemble in the kitchen and sing together when I go back home...
Column: Can we talk? JAMA’s ‘racism’ controversy says the answer is no
Dr. Edward Livingston didn't get it. " 'Structural racism' is an unfortunate term to describe a very real problem," Livingston said on the Feb. 24 episode of a Journal of...
Poll: You can’t spell ‘Tweet of the Week’ without ‘we’
Instructions: Click the box next to each tweet that amuses you -- no limit to the number of choices. Voting closes Friday at noon Chicago time. Winner is published in...
Column: Ominous GOP state legislatures around the country justify heavy-handed partisanship of Illinois Democrats
In North Carolina earlier this spring, 14 Republican lawmakers co-sponsored a bill asserting the General Assembly's right to establish an official state religion, because "the State of North Carolina does...
Column: A Cook County commissioner’s compelling new challenge to renaming Columbus Day as Indigenous Peoples Day
Normally I don't open an email when the subject header begins, "Statement from ..." Dozens hit my inbox every day as elected officials make sure they've planted their flags on...
Column: Invest in kids’ religious education? By all means! Just not on my dime.
A program in place in Illinois since 2017 diverts tax money that otherwise would have gone into state coffers, to fund religious schools. Gov. J.B. Pritzker wants to reduce the...
Column: Right or wrong, Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s discriminatory interview policy was not racist
Mayor Lori Lightfoot may have been politically tone deaf when she announced last week that she would grant one-on-one interviews on her second anniversary in office only to journalists of...
Poll: You’re so vain, you probably think the Tweet of the Week poll is about you
Instructions: Click the box next to each tweet that amuses you -- no limit to the number of choices. Voting closes Friday at noon Chicago time. Winner is published in...