photo by Nancy Bourque The Chicago Tribune Editorial Board does not represent the people of Chicago. As a national newspaper, papers like the Tribune, New York Times, Washington Post, the…
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The Fight for 15 started in 2012, famously, when two workers walked off their shift at McDonald’s. They were protesting the paltry minimum wage, what hasn’t increased since 2009 from…
photo by Gage Skidmore We are officially in the second year of one of the deadliest pandemics the earth has ever seen. Many countries have taken extensive measures to ensure…
photo by Luis Quintero On November 17th, Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced plans for students to return to school starting January 11th, with teachers coming a week earlier. The issue of…
photos by Olivia Lilley Networking. It’s the most capitalistic way to describe the art of building a mutually beneficial relationship. “Networking” reduces something that’s complex, that takes actual work, to…
photo by Gage Skidmore A rift has been spoken to in the Democratic party in the week since the 2020 election results. For many liberals and socialists, the Democratic Party…
America’s 2020 election, while technically not over, has certainly occurred. I voted for Biden. I’ve written in the past about really not wanting to do that, but I’ve found that…
photo by Julie Aagaard As of writing, it’s the day before the 2020 election. It’s all anyone can think of, for better or worse, for different reasons. Today I find…
photo by Element5 Digital Every four years leading up to November, Americans become students of electoral practices, how best to achieve true democracy, and how the way we do things…
photo by Ted Eytan A video of Florida State Senator Mike Bennett is doing the rounds on social media leading up to the election, and for good reason. In it,…
On August 6, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) scrapped its Fall hybrid learning plan for an all remote plan. Lightfoot made the call a day after the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU)…
photo by Mike Licht In the age of declaring Antifa, (or the act of being anti-fascist,) a terrorist organisation, political delineation has become a semantic practice used to keep people…