Latest from Andy Shaw
Facts alone aren’t enough for people cocooned in a media bubble that’s designed to keep criticism out. You can’t just bombard Trump supporters with evidence and expect them to change their minds. Their media bubble is fortified not just by misinformation, but by identity and emotion.
By taking himself out of the running for a third term as governor next year, Pritzker could position himself as a leader with big ideas rather than an official forced to explain why Illinois keeps losing taxpayers and businesses.
The people deserve government that works for them, not for political insiders.
A former longtime Chicago reporter looks back at narratives that shaped the candidacies of Richard M. Daley, Barack Obama, Rod Blagojevich and Joe Biden.
Watching the wave of student protests on college campuses nationwide, a retired journalist recalls his own activism and writes: When these students reflect on this moment, I trust they will appreciate, like I have, our country’s commitment to reasonable free speech, peaceable assembly and democracy.
Self-financing would be a win-win for taxpayers and fans, even if it’s unpopular with owners and investors in sports franchises with big appetites for public subsidies.
Illinois is at a pivotal moment when it’s no longer enough for the governor and legislative leaders to make wishy-washy public statements decrying corruption. It’s time for them to “walk the walk.”
I’m long past the “bullet-proof” vibrancy of youth — but I feel like the same person, only traversing a different city that has many more palpable threats, Andy Shaw writes.
Politicians calculate what they say and do. Journalists turn what they say and do into stories. And every now and then they interact like normal human beings.
Real fandom — the deep-seated kind that becomes part of your persona — starts when you’re young and, as Len Kasper can attest, stays with you forever.