The New Radicals: Academics and activists imagine the future of progressivism...
Aside from the occasional political button or t-shirt, the people crowded into the high-ceilinged atrium of the Experimental Station showed no obvious signs of radicalism. They sat quietly before each...
View ArticleThe Two-Party Party
Tuesday, February 5 was an important day for American politics, with five frontrunners among the Republicans and Democrats vying to win their parties’ nomination to become the country’s 44th President....
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A Nudge in the Right Direction: Two academics point the way to happiness in...
“Libertarian paternalism” sounds like an oxymoron, but two professors at the University of Chicago have written a new book arguing that it is the best approach to governance. In “Nudge: Improving...
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Baracktoberfest: As the election approaches, Obama is popping up all over the...
Barack Obama is perhaps the most famous Chicagoan in the world at the moment, so it’s no surprise he is well remembered on the South Side. In fact, his name and likeness have been popping up all over...
View ArticleFrom Women’s Lib to Writing for Kids
Not many sixty-five-year-old women have tattoos that read “Thug Life,” but Nikki Giovanni is an exception. The radical ’60s poet-turned-children’s author, who stopped at the University of Chicago’s...
View ArticleCelebrating the Dream
“This little light of mine,” a swell of voices rang out over darkness twinkling with red, white, and blue lights. “I’m gonna let it shine, let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.” The DuSable Museum...
View ArticleHop on the Hope Bus
The Chicago Neighborhood Tours website boasts that Hyde Park and Kenwood are “where lakefront vistas, ancient history, architecture and Nobel Prizes meet.” Now that Senator Obama, who used to be the...
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Report from Obamaland: The President may not be here, but his presence remains
(Mehves Konuk) Stately and elegant, red brick with white trim, partly obscured by a row of trees, the house has nothing to set it apart from the other homes on this affluent residential block of...
View ArticleSo it Begins
America’s great pastime is not baseball or football, it’s politics. And I spent November 6 with the cheerleaders. There were a measly 10,000 tickets available for Obama’s election night rally at...
View ArticleChicago Hype Exchange: Charting the capricious contours of celebrity
This week’s biggest gainers: 1 Barack Obama Welcome home, “monster of the Midway.” 2 Che “Rhymefest” Smith Everyone’s buzzing about the aldermanic candidate like he could make Jesus walk or something....
View ArticleChicago Hype Exchange: Charting the Capricious Contours of Celebrity
This week’s biggest gainers: 1 Barack Obama Who knew? He’s running for reelection with a campaign HQ back here where it all started. 2 Dennis Rodman, Tex Winter, Artis Gilmore What do they have in...
View ArticleChicago Hype Exchange: Charting the Capricious Contours of Celebrity
This Week’s Biggest Gainers: 1 Barack Obama Did we mention that the prez who took down Osama bin Laden was a Chicago guy? 2 Tom Thibodeau Bulls leader won NBA Coach of the Year, if not Coach of the Day...
View ArticleChicago Hype Exchange: Charting the Capricious Contours of Celebrity
This Week’s Biggest Gainers: 1 Barack Obama The prez celebrated his fiftieth birthday with a l’il ol’ star-studded bash in his hometown. 2 Carlos Zambrano Big Z seems to be the front runner on the...
View ArticleChicago Hype Exchange: Charting the Capricious Contours of Celebrity
This week’s biggest gainers: 1 Tex Winter After being nominated (and rejected) seven times for the Basketball Hall of Fame, the former Bulls assistant coach and Triangle Offense guru discovered the...
View Article13 Ways of Looking at Occupy Chicago: The Aesthetics of the Movement
By Monica Westin 1. “Grant Park: three years later” was the initial vision for this article—a snapshot of the stark difference in Chicago’s political and emotional temperature between the downtown...
View ArticleDime Stories: Democracy in Chicago
By Tony Fitzpatrick On May 16th, 2011, Rahm Emanuel became the fifty-fifth mayor of the city of Chicago. It was a laugher. He ran against a field of mostly nobodies, and wound up trouncing career...
View ArticleDime Stories: The Atomic Child
By Tony Fitzpatrick It seems every summer, Hollywood rolls out an Armageddon scenario—an over-dressed apocalypse-driven popcorn vehicle for the masses. And every summer, I watch the fucker. That the...
View ArticleDime Stories: The Sky at Ohio
By Tony Fitzpatrick Every election cycle, Ohio is a battleground state. For months before the election there are political operatives, state-wide, working the populace into a furious lather about jobs,...
View ArticleMr. Tea: Congressman Joe Walsh Pities the Fools Who Doubt his Populist Anger
By Eric Lutz The front line in the war for the American dream, it turns out, is here, at Fox Run Golf Links in Elk Grove Village. Go figure. Joe Walsh, the freshman congressman from Illinois’ eighth...
View ArticleDime Stories: Ferguson Burning
By Tony Fitzpatrick One of the more confounding and compelling foundational myths about the Obama Presidency is that it has somehow squared the racial and class-based inequities that plague our...
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