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The value of protest
Originally published in the Chicago Tribune on February 19, 2014 Last week jurors rejected Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez’s...
Women vs. the Catholic Church Round 2: Whose Rights Was the Constitution Written to Protect?
Originally published on January 17, 2014 by The Huffington Post Exactly who – or what – do the constitution’s guarantees of freedom...
The Naiveté of Nihilism
Originally published on November 29, 2013 by In These Times For In These Times’ December 2013 cover feature, “Generation Hopeless?”, the...
A Different Path for Syria—and America’s Cities
Originally published on September 18, 2013 by In These Times I am more than pleased today. For the first time that I can remember, well...
Detroit’s Downfall: Beyond the Myth of Black Misleadership
Originally published on August 8, 2013 by In These Times It would be comforting to the rest of us if, as oft reported, Detroit’s current...
A first mentor, seriously
Originally published in the Chicago Tribune on June 18, 2013 Sometimes, if you’re lucky, you get your mentors early. Bernard “Bernie”...
Where the Real Danger Lies
Originally published on May 23, 2013 by In These Times “The operation was a success, but the patient died.” Nowhere may that old saw be...
Harold Washington and the Elephant in the Room
Originally published on May 7, 2013 by In These Times Thirty years ago, half of Chicago—51.7 percent, to be exact—erupted with...
All Ye Progressives, Take Heart
Originally published April 23, 2013 by In These Times Progressives—and pretty much most sane people—are understandably in a funk about...
Hathaway’s Nipples and a Congressional Primary: Signs of the Times?
Originally published on March 25, 2013 in In These Times I generally have ignored the growing number of articles raising alarm about a...
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