Every goddamn day: 04/20/26

     “This is a crusade!" said Trump troll Stephen Bannon. "This is a Holy War against the Deep State! Donald Trump is our instru...

     I haven't done a lot of investigative pieces for the paper. But one of the very first stories I wrote for news side, back when I ...

     As someone who mines his daily life for material, often of a truly insignificant nature — I wrote three columns in July, 2021 about pic...

     Writing for publication is hard. I sometimes forget that, because writing for publication is about all I do. But this Saturday feature...

  Edith Renfrow Smith in 2022    Happy birthday to you, Edith Renfrow Smith!      While this column is not typically directed toward one spe...

   Under City Hall      As a subscriber to the New York Times, it's interesting to see how that paper always gets Chicago just slightly ...

Voodoo figurines, The Field Museum      Domestic terrorism is a young man’s game. I have no idea why. You’d think it would be the other way ...