Column: Djordje Mihailovic comes home to face the Fire, thinking of revenge
At first Djordje Mihailovic tried to use sports cliches on me as he talked of coming home to Chicago with his new team, FC Montreal, to face the Chicago Fire,...
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Column: The Wuhan story that finally has legs, now that Trump is gone
What are we learning about the American political-media establishment now that the origin story of the coronavirus pandemic appears to be radically changing? The Wall Street Journal has been reporting...
Column: Waiting for Democrats to condemn Lightfoot’s racism, and hearing only crickets
Is anyone truly surprised by the racist interview policy from Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot? As she reaches the midway point in her term, she decided that she would not be...
Column: Pressure from American left for Israeli cease-fire will only strengthen Iran
If Hamas — listed as a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department — launched thousands of rockets at the U.S., what would you have the American president do? Fire...
Column: Politics of fear: Democratic mask neurosis and the Republican mushroom cloud
Many Republicans are rightfully gleeful over the mask dysphoria being suffered by MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, the high TV priestess of the establishment left. But as they ridicule her for mask...
Column: Republican Liz Cheney as the Democrats’ Joan of Arc
The national Democrats and their allies, including the biased cable TV pundits, are all lathered up, elevating the Republican establishment's U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney as their new Joan of Arc....
Column: The virtue signaling of renaming Lake Shore Drive
Chicago has big problems that the political class can't or doesn't want to fix. Chicago Public Schools are, for the most part, low performing, except for the selective enrollment schools...
Column: From the Rahmfather to Rahm of Japan?
Has President Joe Biden forgotten that former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel was run out of this town by voters for burying that Laquan McDonald police shooting video? Voters didn't forget....
Column: Employers beg for workers: ‘It’s the economy, stupid’
Have you ever wondered what happens to flat-earthers? Not all spend their days eating pudding with plastic spoons and re-watching old sitcoms — or as fabulists hanging at the end...
Column: For all the mothers, on this Mother’s Day
My mom's in a nursing home now, and no matter how hard I try to kick it, I can't help but feel like the bad son. When we pick her...