16 stories by "Ben Joravsky"
Over the past few weeks, it's becoming obvious that not all of MAGA actually believes the poison they've been peddling. Not that it makes that poison any less toxic, or […]
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We've reached an "I told you so" moment, dear readers, where I get to say . . . I told you so! It was roughly one year ago that I […]
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Content warning: This column contains a reference to sexual violence. As I write, it's Labor Day"traditionally, the start of the election season. That means "normal" people start to sorta pa…
As the years roll by, mayors and aldermen come and go but the great Tax Increment Financing scam stays forever. Oh, TIFs, TIFs, TIFs. Haven't written about them in awhile. […]
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With each passing day, I get more anxious about the Democratic strategy of promoting MAGA candidates like Darren Bailey in Republican primaries. Oh, I understand the logic"it's an attempt to…
For over twenty years, my centrist friends have been giving me grief for presidential losses the Democrats have suffered. For example . . . Gore's defeat in 2000, allegedly caused by lefties…
It was a mixed-message week on the homefront. Mayor Lightfoot rolled out the red carpet for NASCAR the day before she arm-twisted the alderpeople into cracking down on speeders to make our s…
I think we can all agree that MAGA's unprecedented obsession with truth in regard to the rape of a ten-year-old girl in Ohio was really a sneaky attempt to divert attention from this rather …
I suppose it's somewhat reassuring to know people still get outraged by the MAGA madness Mary Miller spews. That we all haven't gone numb to her lunacy"even though she seems to be saying cra…
As you know by now, the MAGA Six on the Supreme Court eviscerated abortion rights with their recent anti-Roe ruling, thus triggering local laws that instantaneously made abortion illegal in …
In the category of things that I didn't see coming . . . My preliminary favorite for this year's biggest "do as I say, not as I do" hypocrite is Elon Musk. Yes, the world's richest man and s…
As I lay in bed drenched in sweat, battling COVID, it came to me as in a fevered dream . . . The city council had overwhelmingly approved Mayor Lightfoot's idea to spend untold millions on a…
So there I am at my kitchen table, drinking my morning coffee and reading the latest column in the New York Times by Tom Friedman, who I disagree with more often than not. I read pretty much…
Senior writer Ben Joravsky riffs on the day's stories with his celebrated humor, insight, and honesty, and interviews politicians, activists, journalists and other political know-it-al…
Generally, I like to tell a joke or two in these columns, looking to underscore the absurdity of politics with a little dark humor. But no joking this time. On Saturday, an 18-year-old white…
In the last few weeks, Mayor Lightfoot has revealed several important details about the casino she's pushing so hard to develop, including . . . Where it will go"near Chicago and Halsted on …
