Editor’s Note

This week Illinois Times welcomes our summer intern, Maggie Dougherty, of Charlottesville, Virginia. A master’s degree student with Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Maggie is particularly interested in investigative journalism and local news reporting. Earlier this year she was a reporting fellow with Capitol News Illinois in Springfield. Her undergraduate degree, from The College […]

Suddenly the antiwar president is threatening to take the U.S. into war with Iran. He may have thought threats would be enough to get Iran to give in to his demand for “unconditional surrender,” but it only brought a return threat from Iran to inflict “irreparable damage” if the U.S. intervenes. President Trump thought blocking […]

In the Broadway production Good Night, and Good Luck, it was after Edward R. Murrow used his 1950s TV program to show clips of U.S. Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy making a fool of himself in his own words that Murrow got in trouble with news executives at CBS for practicing “advocacy” journalism. As one of […]

Not even I could have given the Senate committee a good definition of habeas corpus that day, and I had two years of Latin in high school. So it’s a little unfair to ask the cabinet secretary, who was hired just to blindly carry out the president’s wishes, to answer such a difficult question. She […]

So far nobody is calling President Trump antisemitic because he did not make a stop in Israel on his current Middle East tour of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and United Arab Emirates. “This is good for Israel, having a relationship with these countries,” Trump said, not untrue. Nor was Trump called antisemitic for circumventing Israel to […]

Uneducated in either racehorses or wine, I pick mine by the name. If I saw Lazy Bones Carbernet on the store shelf, I’d buy it to support cleverness. Of course I picked Journalism to win the Kentucky Derby. But I’m not sorry Sovereignty won. In retrospect I think journalism is already getting too much press, […]

With spring and Easter come flowers and signs of hope. Harvard sues. The Supreme Court asserts itself. A senator visits the man deported by mistake. Protests mount. Markets protest. Still, there’s trouble all around. “Resurrection happens in the midst of darkness,” is the Easter message of Sister Kathlyn Mulcahy, OP, a member of the leadership […]

I used to think China had political and economic advantages over the United States because, as a dictatorship, it could move quickly, building dams in a decade and cities in a year, while eliminating political opposition by thuggery and violence wherever it cropped up. In my mind, however, that advantage of speed was outweighed by […]

Interesting to hear President Donald Trump scheming for a third term, despite the Constitution. One of the ideas is for whoever is elected in 2028 to voluntarily step aside and turn the reins over to him. Sort of like the arrangement he has with Elon Musk. The problem with that scenario is that even unelected […]

“St. Louis was shrinking until the immigrants arrived,” according to the March 9 New York Times. The long article details the city’s efforts over the last several years to attract immigrants. In 2023 the region added 30,000 foreign-born residents, almost enough to replace the 34,000 native-born residents who had left. Now parts of the city […]

In his long speech to Congress March 4, President Donald Trump celebrated the disruption he has brought to Washington and the world since he took office in January. But he never explained how his chainsaw approach helps get us to the Golden Age he claims. The connection remains unclear between indiscriminate firing of government workers […]

It may be too soon, but if things get any crazier in Washington it will be time for level-headed conservatives to start thinking about forming a new political movement, like their ancestors did 170 years ago. Back then the Republican Party was formed by anti-slavery activists; now, what to be against is less clear – […]