With the threat of a teacher’s strike looming, the murder rate booming, Rahm Emanuel appeared yesterday as the “headliner” on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos. The subject was Mitt Romney vs. Barack Obama…
A new NBER study finds that blacks and Latinos in four U.S. cities pay, on average, more than other homebuyers no matter what or where they’re buying. The highest premium is paid by African-Americans in Cook County.
At a GOP fundraiser Thursday night, former Vice President Dick Cheney said that Mitt Romney is the best to lead the country in international crises. Shaping that foreign policy in the coming months will be Chicago attorney Richard Williamson, one of Romney’s advisers charged with persuading voters that Mitt, who has zero experience in international matters, would do better than President Obama…
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It’s unlikely that the President will need to spend much time in Illinois this election season, or his opponent. Not to worry: demographic changes ensure there will be plenty of rallies in the swing states next door.
Like Thomas Eagleton almost exactly 40 years ago, reports of “exhaustion” from a politician spiraled into a confusing media scrum. We’ve gotten better about discussing mental illness since then, but the vocabulary, and our expectations, remain flawed.
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Have you ever arm-twisted? Been part of a quarrelsome political faction? Even derided a classical-realist painter? You, too, could be a Chicago-style politician.
Was the most recent heat wave caused by global warming? It’s not a yes or no question, but we’re starting to get a more nuanced sense of what “maybe” means. The Dust Bowl summers that set Chicago’s record high provide a good metaphor.
In their debate at Freeport, Steven A. Douglas gave America the first iteration of “Cadillac-driving welfare queens,” while Abraham Lincoln’s rhetoric subtly traced the geography of Illinois politics.
