Staff / TruthdigNov 25, 2015
More protests are expected Wednesday after the release of video footage showing the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by police officer Jason Van Dyke. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigNov 25, 2015
A judge in Cook County, Ill., charged Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke with first-degree murder Tuesday in the shooting death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald last year. Updated Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
David Sirota / TruthdigApr 5, 2015
For those pining for a Democratic Party that tries to represent more than the whims of the rich and powerful, these are, to say the least, confusing times. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
David Sirota / TruthdigApr 12, 2014
In America, there is regular ol' corruption, and then there is Chicago Corruption, with a capital "C." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigJul 29, 2013
The people of Chicago are learning how to disturb, embarrass and block the ambitions of socially destructive politicians and corporate executives, Rick Perlstein of The Nation magazine reports. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
By Henry A. Giroux, TruthoutJun 6, 2013
While the superrich themselves live in an age of precarity due to the free-market economics they support, they largely escape its consequences through obscene amounts of wealth that enable them to buy private solutions to public problems. Dig deeper ( 20 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigMay 28, 2013
The Chicago Board of Education voted last week to close 50 of the city's public schools as part of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's plan to save more than $500 million, or half the district's deficit. Some 30,000 students will be affected, about 90 percent of them African-American. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
By Henry A. Giroux, TruthoutMay 25, 2013
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s current attempt to close down 54 public schools largely inhabited by poor minorities is one more example of a savage, racist neoliberal system that uses the politics of austerity and consolidation to further disenfranchise unskilled youths in the inner city. Dig deeper ( 18 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigDec 28, 2012
Many Dutch citizens are attempting to "de-baptize" themselves to protest Pope Benedict's anti-gay marriage declarations; a national database of gun owners may have helped prevent the Newtown shooting; and although the media insist the president is giving in to the Republicans' demands to make cuts to Social Security, Obama's been trying to reduce it all along. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Tracy Bloom / TruthdigSep 17, 2012
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanual said late Sunday that he will see the city's striking union teachers in court soon after a deal to end the weeklong strike fell through. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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