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County Board President The candidates on the ballot for tomorrow’s state primary are not a very inspiring bunch, but even if you don’t vote ...

Thanks to our liberal criminal justice system, this maniac is already back on the streets. ——— 1) The arrest itself probably had less to do ...

If you thought the problem with Illinois politics was Rod Blagojevich, the embarrassing denouement of the state legislature's spring ses...

A comment on the previous post: sweat shops are an easy target and are often misunderstood by outsiders. I went to a talk at Northwestern gi...

Paul Krugman is the only indispensable mainstream opinion writer we have. Unlike most of the others, when you get done reading a Krugman col...

This is worth reading: "in 1999, Americans spent $1,059 per capita on [health insurance] administration compared with only $307 spent ...

What's the deal with Americans? If there's some kind of behavior that's bad for the environment, we seem to always be its bigges...

As we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr's birthday and the inauguration of the first black American president, it's worth remembering...

The latest Obama disappointment is that he's not interested in investigating the crimes committed by the Cheney administration in tortu...

If you could only pick one measure to predict whether a city is awesome or not, make it density. The list below of the top 50 American citie...

I've already discussed my own solution to the auto industry crisis, but what's interesting is that there is another viable solution...

Rod Blagojevich arrested for massive corruption? If you're surprised then you haven't been following Illinois politics at all. But t...

According to a report using 2000 census data, these are the top ten US metropolitan areas with households that do not own a car: New York C...

Progressives have taken quite a beating in the Obama cabinet announcements. Free marketeers Summers or Geithner are the options at Treasury,...