Last month, Chicago magazine declared in a headline that it was “the summer of Royko” in the city. Royko is the late Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Mike Royko, a legend whose image is so big that he has his own Facebook group, “Mike Royko is God.” Over his celebrated career writing about corruption, everyday life and…
In late June in Chicago, after a routine hearing in a federal lawsuit against the city brought by a coalition of protest groups that want closer access to the Democratic National Convention, the plaintiffs and their attorneys gathered in the lobby of the Dirksen Federal Courthouse for a short press conference. This happens regularly at…
Missouri and the right-wing Gateway Pundit lost their U.S. Supreme Court claims that the Biden administration had coerced social media companies to suppress their free speech by removing false and dangerous internet posts about COVID-19, vaccinations and election denial. The vote was 6-3 with three of the more moderate conservatives joining the three justices appointed…
The way journalists report on criminal justice and law enforcement has evolved over the past 10 years. In 2014 when Michael Brown was killed by police in Ferguson, we saw the beginning of this reform, and in 2020 following the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, we saw even greater change. This year…
Attorneys for the two Georgia poll workers who have sued the Gateway Pundit for defamation are asking authorities in Florida to throw out the Pundit’s recent bankruptcy filing there or to allow their case in St. Louis to proceed regardless. In a May 31 motion filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in West Palm Beach,…