Former U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, who served Illinois’ 11th Congressional District and later the 16th from 2011 to early this year, is one of the Republican Party’s most significant truth tellers. On Monday night, Kinzinger spoke in Chicago at a meeting organized by The ...
At the time of this writing, there have been 164 mass shootings in the first 109 days of 2023. By the time this editorial is published, that number may have changed yet again. The last mass shooting to make headlines was March 27 at Covenant Presbyterian School in Nashville, Tenn., ...
by LZ Granderson The Alamo and the Riverwalk are the landmarks most associated with San Antonio, but they don’t tell you as much about the city as its nickname does: Military City, USA. It’s been called that since World War II. The largest joint base in our Department of Defense ...
by Rob Okun “Until people start to go into the streets and protest, we’re not going to see the changes … If you don’t have the people rising up, like what they did with civil rights, like what they did to end the Vietnam War … If you don’t have that, [politicians] are going ...
Right after a 28-year-old shot six people to death at a small Christian school, Rep. Tim Burchett, a Tennessee Republican, emoted on camera. “Three precious little kids lost their lives,” he said with sad resignation, “and I believe three adults.” Burchett then defended the ...
In the past week, America has pondered two news stories involving schools, one tragic, the other cynical. Last Monday, an attacker shot and killed three children and three adults in a Tennessee grade school, the latest in an almost-weekly parade of carnage in America’s classrooms. Days ...