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Dolly Parton performs at the 2021 Kiss Breast Cancer Goodbye benefit concert at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum on Oct. 24, 2021, in Nashville, Tennessee.

Column: There were many dubious achievements in 2021. Here are my awards.

December 24, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

What a year for dubious achievements. It started off with a few thousand sore-loser Donald Trump supporters storming the Capitol and appears to be ending with me trying to figure...

Hundreds of protesters violently breached the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Column: New Pentagon mission: Ban extremism, but not free speech.

December 21, 2021 at 6:54 p.m.

When I heard that the Pentagon had updated its rules of conduct to root out extremism in the wake of the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, I thought, it's...

"A Visit from St. Nicholas," the classic Christmas poem.

Column: Again, I wish you a happy pandemic ‘Blursday’

December 17, 2021 at 4:57 p.m.

With apologies to Clement Clark Moore, may he rest in eternal peace, I offer an update of my pandemic-era update last year of his classic Christmas poem, "A Visit From...

Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., vice chair of the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection, Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., left, and Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., vote on pursuing contempt charges against former President Donald Trump's White House chief of staff Mark Meadows for not complying with a subpoena, at the Capitol in Washington on Dec. 13, 2021.

Column: With each day, the probe into Jan. 6 gets more bizarre

December 14, 2021 at 5:25 p.m.

By now, almost no one who has paid much attention to today's nexus between politics and show business should be surprised to find Kanye West's name pop up in the...

Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx talks to reporters about public safety concerns in Chicago on Oct. 5, 2021.

Column: After Smollett case, Kim Foxx’s ‘progressive’ approach faces more trial

December 10, 2021 at 4:33 p.m.

As a Cook County jury found actor Jussie Smollett guilty of faking a racist and homophobic attack on himself, attention quickly turned to State's Attorney Kim Foxx, the prosecutor who...

Holiday lights reflect off storefronts along the Magnificent Mile on Michigan Avenue in Chicago on Nov. 17, 2020.

Column: Don’t let holiday ‘smash-and-grabbers’ get away with it

December 7, 2021 at 5:07 p.m.

This could be remembered as the winter of two pandemics: COVID-19, of course, and the smash-and-grab robberies pandemic. Since late November, security cameras have been providing us with plenty of...

A mix of proponents and opponents to teaching critical race theory are in attendance on Nov. 16, 2021, as the Placentia-Yorba Linda School Board in California discusses a proposed resolution to ban it from being taught.

Column: Critical race theory is no excuse for ignorance

December 3, 2021 at 5:37 p.m.

Political campaign season may be over but battles against what increasingly is being called "critical race theory" are not. I still put CRT in quotes. I know that those who...

Jussie Smollett arrives at the Leighton Criminal Court Building in Chicago for jury selection in his trial on Nov. 29, 2021.

Column: Jussie Smollett case also puts hate crime law on trial

November 30, 2021 at 5:13 p.m.

As the Jussie Smollett trial began this week, I was reminded of the early verdict that Dave Chappelle delivered without the inconvenience of having to sit through a trial. Everyone...

Josh Smith,attorney for Matthew Heimbach, Matthew Parrott and The Traditionalist Working Party, walks away after speaking with the media Nov. 23, 2021, at the Federal Courthouse in Charlottesville, Virginia. A jury ordered white nationalist leaders and organizations to pay more than $25 million in damages over violence that erupted during the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.

Column: Another way to fight violent hate groups? Take ’em to court

November 26, 2021 at 4:44 p.m.

Once there was a time when the very idea of suing a hate group like the Ku Klux Klan for damages sounded as plausible as punching out a thunderstorm, until...

A man bends over a memorial at Veteran's Park on Nov. 23, 2021, for the victims of Sunday's deadly Christmas parade crash in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

Column: Waukesha tragedy calls for serious bail reform, not finger-pointing

November 24, 2021 at 9:27 a.m.

No, there is absolutely nothing funny about the horrors that abruptly ended Waukesha's Christmas parade. But Mary Lemanski gave it a try, for which she has received more brickbats than...

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