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The people hired to take on corporate salvation projects have to have "Mussolini-like powers to execute and implement." -- Tribun...

Delmarie Cobb on Hitting Left radio in 2017.  Veteran media and political consultant,  Delmarie Cobb  responded, in her recent newsletter , ...

As controversial as that was, it's important to note that the policy was for one round of interviews. @chicagosmayor gave a press confe...

Thousands march in Brooklyn Why has there been so little press coverage in Chicago media, aside from the small obligatory news reports, on t...

CNN anchor, Jim Acosta calls "BS" on Fox "That tale from the border didn't just border on BS, this was USDA Grade-A bulls...

The best honorific for Dr. Biden might be "Teacher".  Whatever the purpose of Joseph Epstein's   WSJ screed ...  it surely fai...

Photograph by Peter Stackpole for Life Magazine (1937). Our dad was one of the original real antifas back in '37. This, a far cry ...

If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot  -- Claude McKay (1919) Trump 'MAGA loves th...

Between 40-60 million pushed into poverty in the Corona era. "We are all in this together. We must put politics aside, stop the ...

No mask, no distancing with corporate pals at Honeywell mask plant. A provocation? Of course. Today's blaring Trump headline bec...

Cook County Jail is now the national epicenter for COVID-19. Prof. Marc Lamont Hill  Easter calls us to remember the plight of the pri...

Yamiche Alcindor, PBS White House correspondent  Why did you shut down the pandemic office in the White House? Trump first calls it a...

Strong Latinx vote for Bernie in NV could also carry him in TX and CA. It was just another poorly-run DNC election and another big win i...

“History is a set of lies agreed upon.” -- Napoleon Bonaparte Three U.S. presidents, Bush, Obama, and Trump, have bought and sold t...

Why were faces blurred in this Facebook photo used in the Sun-Times story? A routine news story became a viral controversy Sunday night...

Jet-setters? Really? Chicago's ace political reporters, Fran Spielman of the Sun-Times and wing-nut  Kristen McQueary of the Trib, ...

Amisha Patel of the Grassroots Collaborative, will be our guest Friday on Hitting Left Friday's Hitting Left show should be a goo...

Don Rose The past two Fridays, the K Bros. were like Trump at a French military cemetery -- No Shows. This time off has been great fo...

Susan Bro, Heather Heyer's mother Susan Bro Bro told reporters to “please remember not to think of Heather, but why she was here....

Ocassio-Cortez at Netroots : “Our swing voter is not red to blue. It's non-voter to voter."  Anoa Changa at Netroots “I t...