On Tuesday, someone robbed my seven-months-pregnant wife on Clark Street. No, there is not a special place in hell for People Who Steal From Pregnant Women, because there is no such thing as hell. But if there were, that special place would be in the same scorching, roach-infested neighborhood that houses…
A Trib poll finds that a majority of residents are opposed to speed cameras, with a weird difference: women are split, men are way against them. Is it because men are the ones who usually get ticketed? Plus: a look at the city’s eight-year plan to improve bike lanes.
The Medill grad, former foreign service officer in Pakistan, and recent political advisor to ISAF task forces in Afghanistan discusses her career, and the situation in the places where she first and most recently served as a diplomat.
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Why NATO was just as flummoxing as the protesters outside; “Obama’s debacle” and other post-NATO reads; how the almost-redundantly named Operation Active Endeavour might represent the future of NATO; and more.
Comparing Seattle’s disastrous 1999 WTO riots with this weekend’s relatively peaceful NATO protests: what lessons can be learned about the boundaries between protesters and police?
Until late yesterday afternoon, when he summed up the success of the NATO summit in a press conference at the Office of Emergency Management, Rahm Emanuel was mostly missing from headlines. Instead, it was his Ravenswood house in the spotlight—after demonstrators protested outside the apparently unoccupied residence on Saturday, and news spread of a plot to firebomb it with a Molotov cocktail…
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The summit ends with a plan to bring the U.S. and its NATO allies out of Afghanistan for the good of both countries, and for what Afghanistan needs to do to make that happen. But Pakistan and its supply routes present a challenge not only to the logistics of withdrawal, but the long-term stability of the region.
The president fields a question on the Newark mayor and campaign surrogate’s suggestion that attacks on private equity are “nauseating”: “when you’re President, as opposed to the head of a private equity firm, then your job is not simply to maximize profits.”
