Articles filed under Politics
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Editorial: Without strong ethics watchdog, value of changing House speaker is limitedJan 10, 2021 10:00 pm - Second in an Opinion series. A small and complicated crack appeared Monday in the armor of Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan when Madigan withdrew his name from con...
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Harris team says it was blindsided by VP-elect's Vogue coverJan 10, 2021 10:00 pm - WILMINGTON, Del. - Vice President-elect Kamala Harris has landed on the cover of the February issue of Vogue magazine, but her team says there's a problem: the shot of t...
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Growing hybrid politicsJan 10, 2021 12:00 am - The 117th Congress has convened. Let's raise a toast to this newly hatched deliberative body and bid a fond farewell to the 116th, the least productive session in Congre...
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How to start a civil warJan 10, 2021 12:00 am - One thing the right always had claim to was the belief that - unlike Black Lives Matter and social justice protests - Tea Party and later MAGA rallies were peaceful, if ...
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What Illinois Republicans are seeking in a new chairmanJan 09, 2021 12:00 am - With the governor's mansion, state Senate and House controlled by Democrats, schisms within the national GOP, and a fundraising gap, it appears Illinois Republicans will...
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Trump cost his party the Senate and the country even moreJan 08, 2021 12:00 am - What do you say of a man who openly seeks to subvert the Constitution and incites his supporters to take over the Capitol of the United States? He's not a president. He ...
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Schaumburg firm fires CEO for role in storming CapitolJan 08, 2021 12:00 am - A Schaumburg tech firm fired its president/CEO Friday - the same day the U.S. Department of Justice released details of the charges filed in federal court against him an...
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The 'Soulcraft' we need from lawmakers in House, SenateJan 08, 2021 12:00 am - In 1983, the conservative writer George Will wrote a slim volume entitled "Statecraft as Soulcraft" in which he argued that he did not see a problem of "big" government ...
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Congresswoman apologizes for citing Hitler in speech to groupJan 08, 2021 12:00 am - U.S. Rep. Mary Miller apologized today for quoting Adolf Hitler at a rally outside the U.S. Capitol this week. In a statement, the newly sworn-in downstate Republican or...
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Constable: Attack from our own evokes gut punch of Sept. 11Jan 07, 2021 4:30 am - “We are no longer the America we were,” began the column I wrote on Sept. 11, 2001. The legendary Studs Terkel concurred during a telephone interview that morning as we ...