When Trump attacks: a surreal moment for American journalists
At a campaign rally in Montana on Oct. 18, U.S. President Donald Trump openly praised a politician who assaulted a……
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Illinois’ Public Access Counselor frustratingly slow; AG candidates promise changes
The public ambulance service in the small northwestern Illinois village of Hanover was used to working in private. When Galena……
‘Are you with us or against us?’ A journalist reflects
Fifty years ago, in the summer of 1968, I was working on my hometown newspaper, the Rock Island Argus. Smithsonian……
The Press: Not at war, at work
A century ago, the First Amendment was taking its first, tentative breaths of life. The protection of speech, protest, religion……
Trump says he IS the law
Opinion During Watergate, President Richard M. Nixon claimed he didn’t have to turn over the White House tapes because the……