"For presidents of faith-based universities, taking a position of neutrality can be problematic since the religious order that sponsors your institution believes that attacks on human dignity are not political matters but rather moral ones." @chicagotribune www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/03/o...

Trump has no strategy to help the Iranian people build a legitimate state—in fact, he’s dismantling tools that could have helped promote civic engagement and build a united opposition in Iran, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues. theatln.tc/k99IcIzV

"Our point . . . is to say that the failure of blue-city governance, not confined to Chicago, is now a national conversation piece. And the protests of some progressives notwithstanding, it’s increasingly a set narrative." @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/25/e...

"But it has also introduced profound questions about safety, inequality, and the viability of a wage-labor system that, despite its flaws, spawned the most prosperous society in human history." @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

"In each case, economic performance risks becoming a rhetorical shield — one that deflects scrutiny from actions that undermine democratic norms and constitutional principles." @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/22/o...

"Although some in the industry have accepted that another lockout is all but inevitable this winter, Happ said he remains optimistic that a work stoppage can be avoided." @chicago.suntimes.com chicago.suntimes.com/cubs/2026/02...

"Trump’s vulnerability, however, is readily apparent if we consult another moment when a bully was stopped, a bully whose right-hand man Roy Cohn, ironically, later served as mentor and lawyer to Trump." @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/17/o...

"Students who experience high-quality civic education are more likely to complete college and develop employable skills, vote, discuss current issues, speak in public with confidence, contact public officials and volunteer in their communities. . . ." www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/16/o...

"Much of that could be realized in a Chicago stadium not far from downtown. Most of that likely would be a pipe dream for Arlington Heights." @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/13/c...

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"If that debate is opened, there will be tough decisions to make in terms of what sorts of crimes qualify for cooperation with the feds from those running our state and local prisons and jails." @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/06/e...

"Legitimacy comes from collaboration with citizens, not autonomy from them. People need straightforward talk about trade-offs — between price stability and employment, between protecting savers and stimulating growth." @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/04/o...

"Even after last year’s progress, Chicago’s homicide rate is nearly 13 times London’s; our 'success' would be an unprecedented emergency in the United Kingdom." @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/01/o...

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"Paywalls don’t just limit the reach of news; they create a void often filled by lies and deceit." @chicago.suntimes.com @johncusack.bsky.social chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/...

"A key question will be whether tech companies deliberately built their platforms to hook young users, contributing to a youth mental health crisis. The jury's decision could have big consequences for the tech industry and how children use social media." @npr.org www.npr.org/2026/01/27/n...

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"Much has been said, including by me, about Trump’s narcissism, his autocratic inclinations, his disconnection from reality, but not nearly enough has been said about his fundamental indecency, the characteristic that undergirds everything he says and does." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

"Even in the face of a domestic law enforcement presence with massive surveillance capabilities and military-esque technologies, there are still ways to engage in surveillance self-defense." @eff.org www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

"And while medications and therapy are important tools, Fabiano says exercise is recognized as a preferred treatment for depression." @npr.org www.npr.org/2026/01/12/n...

"But there is another price to pay, which cannot be measured in dollars and cents: the cost of intellectual stagnation." @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/11/o...

"Federal agents often used violent and unlawful tactics during the operations, advocates and lawyers said." @blockclubchi.bsky.social blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/30/c...

"According to the Higher Education Research Institute, in 2024, 84% of students in its survey of freshmen at four-year bachelor’s degree-granting universities had A averages in high school." @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/05/o...

The military removal of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on US drug charges comes after Trump has freed other figures connected to narcotics trafficking. n.pr/4skk4yB

"The chain is based in the Philippines, which developed a taste for burgers and fried chicken during its years as a U.S. colony, and has since made the foods its own." @theatlantic.com @yeahyeahyasmin.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

"While much attention has been given to the broad legal challenges to the deployment . . . more attention should be directed to the legal vulnerability of these underprepared federal agents now patrolling our cities and towns." @chicago.suntimes.com.web.brid.gy chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/...

"Seduced by social-science rationalism, moral relativism, or political partisanship, people had trouble thinking clearly about what separates a morally healthy society from a morally unhealthy one." @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

"No one is more skeptical of the accommodations system than the academics who study it." @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

"In reality, though, the Northwestern bargain endangers academic freedom and institutional autonomy, subjecting the university to ongoing federal control." @chicago.suntimes.com chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/...

"'For what appears to be the first time in Apple's nearly fifty-year history, Apple removed a U.S.-based app in response to the U.S. government's demands,' according to the suit." @npr.org www.npr.org/2025/12/08/n...

"The things I find disturbing, revolting and utterly disqualifying are inexplicably the same exact things that a not small number of Americans find appealing. Racism, incompetence, corruption, to name a few." @chicago.suntimes.com chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...

"Indeed, not only is singing a deeply ingrained human cultural activity, research increasingly shows how good it is for us." @us.theconversation.com theconversation.com/we-are-hardw...

"These videos, which falsely portrayed Ramaphosa as corrupt and incompetent, were not harmless political theater. They were an assault on truth and an affront to a nation that has stood as a beacon of democratic progress on the continent." @chicago.suntimes.com chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...

"Sheridan’s run-in with Bovino is one of several occasions in which the Border Patrol boss appears to have invented facts, rearranged chronologies or distorted what happened. A string of similar cases has been dismissed. . . ." @chicago.suntimes.com chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

"One big problem with giving these sorts of gifts is that you're opting another person into a company's intrusive surveillance practice, likely without their full knowledge of what they're really signing up for." @eff.org www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

"The decision to protect neo-Nazis and pedophiles, just because it might benefit Trump in some way, is a precipice I never thought I’d see so-called conservatives walk up to. And yet, here they are, giddily leaping off of it." @chicago.suntimes.com chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...

"A federal judge has ordered over 400 people detained by immigration agents to be released by Friday as part of an ongoing lawsuit that accused agents of violating a consent decree governing warrantless immigration arrests." @blockclubchi.bsky.social blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/19/4...

blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b... "It appeared to be a photo shoot for the latest photo op from the agency, which has repeatedly used photos and videos of agents posing in Chicago on social media." @blockclubchi.bsky.social

"How can a nation full of the descendants of immigrants, on land stolen by foreign colonizers, be so opposed to the arrival of people seeking the same things their ancestors did years ago?" @chicago.suntimes.com chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...

"For those of us who love Chicago, this isn’t the middle or end of our resistance story. We’re just getting started." @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/o...

"The challenge we face is to move from being passive users of AI to engaged citizens who can verify AI responses that, as a common expression goes, are 'frequently wrong but never in doubt.'" @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/04/o...

"The modern Republican Party was always an uneasy marriage between business interests . . . and the racist Dixiecrats and religious traditionalists who wanted to get rid of equal rights for racial minorities and women." @hcrichardson.bsky.social heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-2...

"The Democrats’ message to Americans must be clear: They did this to you. We tried our best to protect you from this obscene attack on the health care system, but they wouldn’t even talk to us. There is nothing more we can do." @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/02/o...

"It is not just a policy failure — it’s a moral one. Denying food assistance to millions of Americans in the dead of winter, during a time of economic uncertainty, is unconscionable." @chicago.suntimes.com chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...

"You might think that an attack of this magnitude would cause the American left to make a full-throated defense of free and open expression. But you’d be wrong." @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/29/o...

"There has to be a moratorium on these kinds of un-American tactics and there has to be one now. This . . . is outrage over kids seeing things that are impossible to forget. And over American kids suddenly having a parent swept away." @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/28/e...

"The United States hasn’t seen anything resembling a general strike since the 1940s, and a few key legal changes have been made since then." @blockclubchi.bsky.social blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/28/m...

The right-wing's attempts to label peaceful protesters as violent extremists is a classic authoritarian strategy to justify crackdowns: @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social on the historic No Kings Day of peaceful protest – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/48CM3SF #NoKings

Faculty leaders call the decision "voluntary capitulation" to the #Trump administration: “UIC’s mission is to increase access at the highest levels of excellence and this, to me, sends a message that essentially says, 'We don’t actually care about access.'" Read more: www.wbez.org/education/20...