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News & Politics, Feature Aug 23, 2017
Beyond the ‘Bernie bro’: Socialism’s diverse new youth brigade

Inspired by Sanders, outraged by Trump, and betrayed by the neoliberal establishment, the reinvigorated Democratic Socialists of America set out to paint the town red.
- By Ryan Smith
- Tags: Feature, Socialism, Democratic Socialists of America, Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, DSA, DSA National Convention, Chapo Trap House, Rob Delaney, R.L. Stephens, Bernie Bros, Lucie Macias, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, International Socialist Organization, John Cusack, Danny Glover, Chokwe Antar Lumumba, Black Lives Matter, Khalid Kamau, In These Times, Miles Kampf-Lassin, National Political Committee, Bhaskar Sunkara, Donald Trump, Chicago Teachers Union, Naomi Klein, No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need, Haymarket Books, Thomas Frank, People's Summit

Blogs, Bleader Mar 27, 2017
Kim Foxx on the Girl Talk, the Chicago Improv Festival, and more things to do in Chicago this week

Thomas Frank, Zhang Peili, and more happenings from March 27-30
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Thomas Frank, Seminary Co-op, Comics & Patries Collide, Martyrs', Chicago Improv Festival, Taco Tuesday, Lagunitas Brewing, the Girl Talk, Hideout, Kim Foxx, Reverend Jesse Jackson, UIC, Greg Proops, Smartest Man in the World Proopcast, Lincoln Hall, Fields magazine, Cafe Mustache, Kiss & Tell, the Owl, Zhang Peili: Record. Repeat., Art Institute of Chicago

Blogs, Bleader Jun 8, 2016
What to see at Printers Row 2016: Marilynne Robinson, Seymour Hersh, and much more

A list of some of the most exciting-sounding presentations for this weekend's Printers Row book fair.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Arts, Books, Do This, Printers Row 2016, best bets, Marilynne Robinson, Seymour Hersh, R.L. Stine, Ruth Reichl, Buzz Aldrin, Thomas Frank, Natalie Y. Moore

Blogs, Bleader Apr 11, 2016
Abra Berens's Homegrown Cookbook dinner, the Reader's Book Swap, and more things to do in Chicago this week

Author Thomas Frank, Welcome to Night Vale live, and more happenings from April 11-14
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Peep Show, Links Hall, ABC Project, Michael Hernandez de Luna, Carl Hammer Gallery, Philatelic Adventures, New Belgium Beer Dinner, Schubas Tavern, Slurring Bee, Quenchers Saloon, Thomas Frank, Hideout, Listen Liberal: Or, Whatever Happened to the Party of the People?, Chicago Reader Book Swap, Old Town School of Folk Music, The Chicago Homegrown Cookbook, Read It and Eat, Abra Berens, Harris Theater, Welcome to Night Vale

Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Apr 7, 2016
Recommended
Thomas Frank calls Bill Clinton and Rahm the betrayers of the 'party of the people'

In Listen Liberal, the author of What’s the Matter With Kansas? takes a break from bashing the GOP to hold a mirror up to the flaws of the Democratic Party
- By Ryan Smith
- Tags: Lit Feature, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, What's The Matter With Kansas?, Thomas Frank, The Baffler, Rahm Emanuel, Neoliberalism, Ronald Reagan, Newt Gingrich, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Oct 23, 2012
The Reader's Agenda: Tue 10/23

What's on the Agenda for Tuesday, October 23, 2012
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Bloomington, Indiana, Sleeping Bag, Joyful Noise, The Burlington, Logan Square, Sheriff Scabs, Thomas Frank, What's the Matter With Kansas?, Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right, Quimby's, Wicker Park, Grimes, Visions, Elite Gymnastics, Myths

Blogs, Bleader Jun 18, 2012
On pleasure, happiness, and that thing called "better off"

Is happiness riding on the November elections?
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, Politics, News, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Deidre McCloskey, the New Republic, Manny's Deli, London Blitz, happiness, Thomas Frank

Blogs, Bleader Mar 7, 2012
What's the matter with Chicago?

It's time Chicago voters ask themselves why they support policies they don't believe in.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Clout City, News, President Barack Obama, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, NATO, G8, 2016 Olympics, Chicago Public Schools, Thomas Frank, What's the Matter with Kansas?

News & Politics, Chicago Reader at Forty Sep 8, 2011
2005

The year in Chicago history via the pages of the Reader
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Chicago Reader at Forty, politics, money, war, focus, Thomas Frank, Culture Wars, What's the Matter with Kansas?, John Kerry, 2004 election, Republican media, army interrogator, Tori Marlan, Ted Cox

Blogs, Bleader Aug 19, 2010
I Luv the 90s: The Return of Chris Holmes

Yum-Yum: Like 10,000 spoons when all you needed was a knife.
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Music, Chris Holmes, Yum-Yum, Thomas Frank, remember when irony was important

News & Politics, Politics Jan 14, 2010
The Case For Selling Off the City

You’ve read plenty in these pages about the hazards of turning over roads, airports, and parking meters to private companies. But when privatization is done right, argues advocate John Schmidt, it can be an ideal partnership.
- By Mick Dumke
- Tags: Politics, privatization, Indiana Toll Road, Chicago Skyway, Mayor Daley, City Council, Chicago parking meters, parking meter lease, Thomas Frank, John Schmidt, Mayer Brown, Indiana Toll Road, Midway Airport, Chicago Park District, Walter Knorr, Ontario Highway 407, William Blair & Associates, Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, William Blair

Blogs, Bleader Jan 5, 2010
Return of the Baffler

The Baffler is back and in the mail.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, News Bites, The Baffler, Conor O'Neil, Thomas Frank, Dave Mulcahey, New York Observer

Blogs, Bleader Jun 2, 2009
The Point -- something new to read in Chicago

Three University of Chicago grad students who believe it's a bad time for serious ideas launch The Point, a new journal where they'll find a haven.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: News, News Bites, University Of Chicago, The New Yorker, David Foster Wallace, Slavoj Zizek, Thomas Frank, The Point, Jon Baskin, Jonny Thakkar, Etay Zwick, The Baffler, The New York Review of Books

Blogs, Bleader Jan 23, 2009
My trip to the inauguration

The Hideout went to Washington for the inauguration--and Monica Kendrick was there.
- By Monica Kendrick
- Tags: Music, Crickets, Hideout, Obama, road trip, Inauguration, Tim Tuten, Katie Tuten, Washington, D.C., Thomas Frank, Big Shoulders Ball

News & Politics, Media May 6, 1993
Blunting the Cutting Edge/PR War
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, Hot Type, Allan Bloom, Neil Howe, Bill Strauss, books, Generation X, Thomas Frank, The Baffler, consumerism, generations, "Diamonds" Dave Mulcahey, Ruder Finn, public relations, PR, Serbian American Media Center, George Bogdanich, James Harff, New Statesman & Society, war, propaganda, Rhoda Paget, BBC

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Inspired by Sanders, outraged by Trump, and betrayed by the neoliberal establishment, the reinvigorated Democratic Socialists of America set out to paint the town red.

Thomas Frank, Zhang Peili, and more happenings from March 27-30

A list of some of the most exciting-sounding presentations for this weekend's Printers Row book fair.

Author Thomas Frank, Welcome to Night Vale live, and more happenings from April 11-14

In Listen Liberal, the author of What’s the Matter With Kansas? takes a break from bashing the GOP to hold a mirror up to the flaws of the Democratic Party

What's on the Agenda for Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Is happiness riding on the November elections?

It's time Chicago voters ask themselves why they support policies they don't believe in.

The year in Chicago history via the pages of the Reader

Yum-Yum: Like 10,000 spoons when all you needed was a knife.

You’ve read plenty in these pages about the hazards of turning over roads, airports, and parking meters to private companies. But when privatization is done right, argues advocate John Schmidt, it can be an ideal partnership.

The Baffler is back and in the mail.

Three University of Chicago grad students who believe it's a bad time for serious ideas launch The Point, a new journal where they'll find a haven.

The Hideout went to Washington for the inauguration--and Monica Kendrick was there.

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