Every goddamn day: 05/09/25

      They call it Black History Month , though public attention has a way of petering out in the early days of February, ground down by t...

Caroline Brennan speaks with Syrian refugees in Lebanon. Women and children make up more than 70 percent of the Syrian refugee population ...

     Maybe we are making a mistake focusing on the president and what he does.      Not that it isn't important. It is.      And when...

     The timing could not have been better.      A week after the Field Museum unveiled its new interactive meteorite display, a green fir...

          Okay, this is funny.      Well, it might not be funny to you . But it's funny to me, or was this morning, and I'm sittin...

       Chicago has played a role in the arts. Poetry, of course, ever since a teenage Charlie Sandburg took $1.50 earned on a milk tru...

    I wrote this last weekend, and it went up briefly in the wee hours of Monday morning. Then I woke up, heard about the slaughter at a Qu...