My fellow Illinoisans, less is more: 🛡 🍃 🪨 🧣 🦅 🌊 ☀️ wgntv.com/news/illinois/…

Why have so many Illinois politicians been corrupt? will.illinois.edu/21stshow/story… Brian Mackey & I chat about Chicago Tribune series, Culture of Corruption

A key point missing in a lot of post debate analysis is that Trump’s claim about immigrants eating pets almost perfectly syncs up to the piano in the Peanuts theme song.

I'm sitting next to a Lincoln impersonator at the airport bar. He's watching MSNBC reporting on yesterday's assassination attempt. This is easily the most surreal thing I've ever witnessed.

Forty years ago this week, an insurance salesman's debut novel began appearing on shelves around DC. That book was THE HUNT FOR THE RED OCTOBER. It launched Tom Clancy's publishing empire — with a nudge from The Post. Come with us on this deep dive… washingtonpost.com/history/2024/1…

Election Touchscreen Map Takes Deeper Look Inside Key Swing Voter | Onion News Network ONN political analyst Jason Copeland breaks down the latest presidential polling trends going on inside Pennsylvania resident Nick Camden.

Among the most important charts for thinking clearly about the 2024 election — and politics in general. The hardest divide to cross isn't left vs. right. It's interested vs. uninterested. dataforprogress.org/insights/2024/…

OK, OK. A lot of people are asking me about where we stand with the new state flag commission. A 🧵. (1/1000)

I joined ⁦Brian Mackey⁩ yesterday to talk about what is being contemplated for Medicaid. Four More Years: Looking at proposed changes to Medicaid under incoming Trump administration one.npr.org/i/1264435089:1…

I could be getting ready for today's The 21st Show, or I could be obsessively hitting Cmd-R on Jon Seidel's riveting trial coverage.

.Governor JB Pritzker did not take questions from journalists, so no fresh comment from him on the recent ICE activity. But here's an excellent interview from last week on The 21st Show with Brian Mackey will.illinois.edu/21stshow/story… and Pritzker was on State of the Union Sunday cnn.com/2025/01/26/pol…

The decision of whether to run for re-election has not been easy. I truly love the job of being a United States Senator. But in my heart, I know it’s time to pass the torch. So, I am announcing today that I will not be seeking re-election at the end of my term.

Emma Shafer was a friend. I wrote this after she was killed in 2023. Sharing it again to remind folks of what she stood for. In short, she was a friend + ally of immigrants and would've hated her death being exploited in a political stunt to demonize them. pantagraph.com/opinion/column…