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, Nov 25, 2012
Weekly Top Five: Reagan-era actioners
Weekly Top Five: Reagan-era actioners
by Drew Hunt
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, Nov 6, 2012
Escape to Canada?
Dreading the election? I'm not.
by Steve Bogira
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, Oct 31, 2012
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And in this corner, the Rainbow Coalition!
Hey kids, did you know that Reverend Jesse Jackson used to run for president?
by Kate Schmidt
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, Oct 16, 2012
Q&A: Rick Perlstein on how a dose of machine politics could benefit Obama
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, Sep 25, 2012
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, Sep 11, 2012
Census stats likely to show highest poverty rate since 1965
When will the presidential candidates notice?
by Steve Bogira
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, Aug 27, 2012
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12 O'Clock Track: Wasted Youth, "Reagan's In"
The title track from Wasted Youth's debut album,
Reagan's In
by Kevin Warwick
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, Aug 22, 2012
Free Toni Preckwinkle!
The Cook County Board president catches shit on behalf of the ghost of Ronald Reagan
by Sam Worley
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, Aug 9, 2012
Apply now to Newt University
Offering a Bachelor of Conservative Arts program second to none
by Steve Bogira
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, May 1, 2012
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A review of
Graze
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by Elly Fishman
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, Mar 13, 2012
Obama's speaking dilemma
When Obama speaks, people listen—but does it matter?
by Steve Bogira
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, Feb 24, 2012
My first protest
The night Oliver North came to town
by Mick Dumke
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Will the 80s ever end?
The MCA's "This Will Have Been" suggests the answer is no
by Sam Worley
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, Jan 25, 2012
Watching in awe
The Republican primaries—theocrats in action
by Michael Miner
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, Jan 20, 2012
Grandiose Old Party
Only Newt Gingrich can protect us from Obama's frightening radicalism, Gingrich says
by Steve Bogira
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, Sep 20, 2011
Charles Percy, UNO, and the ever-shifting political winds
by Mick Dumke
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, Aug 16, 2011
Repeat after me: No new taxes
In the Iowa debate, a Fox anchor cornered the candidates into a loyalty oath.
by Steve Bogira
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, May 23, 2011
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Fire and brimstone and BS
by Alex Parker
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, Jan 31, 2011
Our Father Who Art 100
It wasn't his presidency that made Ronald Reagan holy.
by Michael Miner
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, Jan 20, 2010
Print the Reagan Myth: False History Repeats Itself
A strange desire for Obama to be Bush III.
by Whet Moser
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