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Saturday, February 13, 2021

Texas notes: All that glitters

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     Sometimes you flap and flap, and just can't get off the ground, and I felt for Austin bureau chief Caren Jeskey this week, admiring...
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Friday, February 12, 2021

Capitol attack not a finale, but an opening act

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                       "The Legislative Belly," by Honoré Daumier (Metropolitan Museum of Art)      Next week, when most Senate Re...
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Thursday, February 11, 2021

Not a finale but an opening act

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     Stacey Plaskett, a Democratic House impeachment manager, a delegate from the U.S. Virgin Islands, presented her case coolly and careful...
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Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Black parent faces loss of Catholic school

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     Ever Strong at Christ Our Savior Catholic School in South Holland.       Last week I got an email that begins with journalistic clarity...
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Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Karen Lewis, 1953-2021: "Sometimes profane, but always profound"

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     Karen Lewis was a fighter.      As the president of the Chicago Teachers Union, she battled for the best contracts her members could ge...
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Monday, February 8, 2021

True greatness comes from facing history

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  “One can’t walk in the streets and the newspapers are not allowed to print the truth, because they are afraid that the Polish currency wou...
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Sunday, February 7, 2021

Walk the dog

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    Kitty      "I can't walk the fucking dog."      Spoken in a kind of amazed, compressed, staccato anger. "I can't ...
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