- 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 2, 2012
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What a robbery in Edgewater says about the police staffing debate, part one of two
A close look at a jewelry store stickup and the politics of police deployment
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 14, 2012
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The shot that brought the projects down, part three of five
How the 1992 killing of Dantrell Davis forever altered not just the landscape of Chicago but urban policy nationwide, part three of five
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 13, 2012
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The shot that brought the projects down, part two of five
How the 1992 killing of Dantrell Davis forever altered not just the landscape of Chicago but urban policy nationwide, part two of five
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 29, 2012
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When Norman Mailer finally got to talk shit in the New Yorker
After his death, Norman Mailer got to curse in the New Yorker
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Jun 26, 2012
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Joe Meno's inappropriate answer to the Hollywood rom-com
The Chicago author reads from Office Girl at the Book Cellar
- Blogs, Bleader, May 7, 2012
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On Robert Caro, LBJ, Clinton, editors, and deadlines
I have a personal reason for appreciating Robert Caro
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 18, 2012
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The forgotten issue in the presidential campaign
The African-American child poverty rate is severely high and climbing, but neither Romney nor Obama is talking about it
- News & Features, Feature, Mar 28, 2012
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The puzzler and the puzzled
In which our writer searches through, down, and across the history of crosswords for clues on constructing his own
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 13, 2012
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Obama's speaking dilemma
When Obama speaks, people listen—but does it matter?
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 18, 2012
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Keeping his Mitts on his money
Romney pays a low rate of taxes, and if elected, will fight to keep it that way
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 9, 2012
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The President's ménage à trois
Running a country is tough—keeping your two partners happy is even tougher.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 3, 2012
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Now online: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (part 1)
The first of a three-part series on Adam Curtis's essay-film All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace.
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 18, 2011
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One sharp mayor
On Mayor Emanuel, razors, and other sharp objects.
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 16, 2011
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The Disappointment: Or, the Force of Credulity
Brian Springer's family searches for an anarchist diary and buried treasure on their Missouri farm in his documentary "The Disappointment: Or, the Force of Credulity," screening Thursday 3/17 at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 15, 2011
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Mayor Daley to Become a Public Speaker
Richard Daley on bass guitar.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 21, 2011
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How Much Should Clinton's Endorsement Matter Anyway?
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 9, 2010
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Harlem's Mart 125: The American Dream
Rachelle Salnave traces the battle over indoor market Mart 125 as a microcosm of the economic transformation of the neighborhood in "Harlem's Mart 125: The American Dream," screening Sunday 4/11 at the DuSable Museum of African American History.
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 2, 2009
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Top Ten People Who Laughed at Letterman's Show Last Night
- News & Features, Feature, Jul 2, 2009
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How I Made It in Comedy: Robert Smigel
"There’s just something about the combination of a tiny animal and a man’s nipples that tends to upset viewers. Isn’t that an old comedy saying?"
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