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Bleader
Sep 24, 2018
Here's hoping that the myth of the bad teacher is finally laid to rest
Even Mayor 1 Percent is backpedaling away from his earlier support of charter schools and his refusal to
By Ben Joravsky
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Time magazine
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Bruce Rauner
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel
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Rahm Emanuel
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Mayor 1 Percent
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Toni Preckwinkle
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Chicago Tribune
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Karen Lewis
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Hope Brown
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Versailles Kentucky
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Bill Gates
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Walmart
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Mark Kirk
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Sister Souljah
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Chicago Teachers Union
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union busting
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labor
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charter schools
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school reform movement
Arts & Culture
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Performing Arts Review
Oct 8, 2014
Timeline Theatre's based-on-fact play makes a contradictory case
Did Danny Casolaro die for you? It's doubtful.
By Tony Adler
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Performing Arts Review
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Danny Casolaro Died for You
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Timeline Theatre
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Dominic Orlando
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Nick Bowling
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George H. W. Bush
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Bill Hamilton
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Watergate
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Oliver Stone
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JFK
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Mike Riconosciuto
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Mark Richard
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Bobby Fischer
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Jimmy Carter
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Robert Nichols
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Philip Earl Johnson
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Kyle Hatley
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Jack Anderson
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Time Magazine
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Edward Snowden
Arts & Culture
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Book Review
Sep 18, 2013
Henry Darger, in the realms of the possibly real
A new biography of the outsider artist has too much to prove, and not enough to prove it with.
By Sam Worley
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Jim Elledge
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Elsie Paroubek
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Steve Danziger
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Open Letters Monthly
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Robert Hughes
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Time magazine
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Roman Catholicism
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gender
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Michael Bonesteel
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symbolism
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male femininity
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sexuality
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queering
Blogs
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Bleader
Oct 12, 2012
Thanks to smartphones, we're now in the golden age of reading
Chris Hughes (Facebook, the New Republic) has a solution for journalism's woes, and it's pretty simple
By Mara Shalhoup
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Ideas Week
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Chicago Ideas Week
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Future of News
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Richard Stengel
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Chris Hughes
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Jonah Peretti
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Time magazine
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The New Republic
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Buzzfeed
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smartphone
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walrus memes
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Bleader
Oct 8, 2012
"Hey, I have an idea," this week on the Bleader
This week's Variations on a Theme: Ideas Week
By Tal Rosenberg
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Ideas Week
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Bleader
Aug 21, 2012
What's the story? Who cares!
Why it's foolish to be alarmed by "story-less" movies
By Ben Sachs
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Graeme McMillan
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The Bourne Legacy
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Celine and Julie Go Boating
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Jonathan Rosenbaum
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Chuck Jones
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Bleader
May 16, 2012
Q&A with Alison Bechdel: "I feel like mothers are just fucked."
An interview with graphic novelist Alison Bechdel
By Elly Fishman
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Are You My Mother?
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Donald Winnicott
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Chris Ware
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Bleader
Oct 7, 2011
You can't say "hell" in the
New York Times
?
No, you can't.
By Sam Worley
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Bleader
Nov 29, 2010
Raindance Reunion
Hollywood producer and Chicago native Michael Shamberg joins his comrades from the Vietnam-era radical video collective Raindance Corporation for their first-ever reunion Tuesday, Nov. 30 at Loyola University.
By Ed M. Koziarski
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Erin Brockovich
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Bleader
Apr 20, 2009
What happens to "luxury" in a bargain-bin economy
The hidden cost of discounts.
By Heather Kenny
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Retail
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Time Magazine
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Wall Street Journal
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Hermes
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LVMH
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Birkin bag
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Bleader
Oct 9, 2007
When does the meat-and-potatoes backlash start?
Time magazine's piece on Charlie Trotter's anniversary fete gives us the same old same old.
By Martha Bayne
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Chicago
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Bleader
Apr 5, 2007
A debate on religion in the classroom--but not the debate you might expect
Ex-UIC dean Stanley Fish argues in the New York Times that academia does the Bible a disservice.
By Michael Miner
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News
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News Bites
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David Van Biema
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Chronicle of Higher Education
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the Bible
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Stephen Prothero
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Bleader
Nov 17, 2006
Maps, magazine covers, Rudy, and carbon
One American city has a carbon tax, and it's not Chicago.
By Harold Henderson
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Chicago
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Politics
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Carbon Tax
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Maps
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Time Magazine
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Centrism
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Boulder
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