- News & Features, Politics, Dec 26, 2012
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The Reader's second annual awards for political "achievement"
Honoring some of the more notable deeds from our elected leaders in 2012
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Dec 10, 2012
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How FDR won the war of public perception
Michele Landis Dauber's The Sympathetic State details the selling of the New Deal
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 6, 2012
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Irony is a force that gives us meaning
But we don't know what it is, either
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 4, 2012
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Yak, yak, yak—whack! On Killing Them Softly's source novel
The film re-creates the glum talk and savage violence of its source novel
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 3, 2012
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My Twitter following is much purer than Obama's
Most of the president's followers are phonies
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 25, 2012
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Harold Washington, Chicago politics, and the roots of the Obama presidency
A new edition of Gary Rivlin's chronicle of the Harold Washington years, Fire on the Prairie
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 21, 2012
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White House turkey begs your pardon
In a fake Facebook contest. Also: Honey Boo Boo.
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 21, 2012
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Chance the Rapper on Obama, LSD, and being pigeonholed as a high school MC
An interview with the local MC, who headlines at the Metro on Friday, November 23rd
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 13, 2012
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Mr. Smith Screws Up Washington
The Frank Capra classic lends moral support to senate obstructionists
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 12, 2012
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This week we wonder: "What will the next four years look like?"
This week's Variations on a Theme: The Next Four Years Week
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 10, 2012
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How social media might be hurting presidential elections
My problems with social media, exacerbated during the presidential election
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 9, 2012
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Marijuana votes produce legal haze and hope for reforms
Legalization votes in Colorado and Washington show that the nation's marijuana policies are a tangled mess
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 8, 2012
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The dwindling minority of white male voters
The GOP's old dependables
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 8, 2012
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Segregation and Obama's second term
It's never politically expedient for a president to fight segregation
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 8, 2012
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Even on election night, some Republicans have a little love to give
The lesson to be learned from the time I was sort of hit on by state comptroller Judy Baar Topinka
- News & Features, Politics, Nov 7, 2012
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He's got this
Reports from across Chicago as the votes for President Obama came rolling in
- Movies, Movie Review, Nov 7, 2012
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Dishonest Abe
Steven Spielberg's long-awaited biopic of the 16th president reveals the pol behind the legend
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 7, 2012
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But what if Romney had won the election?
This is the cover we'd have run if Romney-the-President had appealed to Latinos, unmarried women, and young people
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 7, 2012
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Letting the Romnesia set in after a long campaign
A servicewoman, an esteemed dietician, and a mayoral hopeful were in the ecstatic and relieved crowd for Obama's acceptance speech last night
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 7, 2012
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Sure and certain doom ahead for America
Pray for your country
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