Brian Seibert
‘Carefully Plotted Chaos’

For decades the choreographer Twyla Tharp has been drawing on her past successes and even returning to earlier failures, looking to get it right this time.

Victoria Baena
Pitiless, Restless Brecht

A recent show of Bertolt Brecht’s collages and ephemera suggested that he viewed all his work as forever in progress.

Joseph O’Neill
Kamalapalooza

“Fundamentally, the Kamala craze reflects the elation and hope and unleashed power of a party base unexpectedly freed from its gloom and despair. The ActBlue movement is back.”

Sean Wilentz
The ‘Dred Scott’ of Our Time

In ruling in favor of Donald Trump’s claims of immunity from prosecution for his official acts, the Supreme Court has invested the presidency with quasi-monarchial powers, paving the way for MAGA authoritarianism.

Free from the Archives

The last time Chicago hosted the Democratic National Convention, in 1996, Garry Wills wrote about the Democrats’ and Republicans’ platforms and their attempts to appeal to the public.

Garry Wills
A Tale of Two Cities

“Unions, especially the teachers’ union, were as disproportionately represented in Chicago as millionaires were in San Diego. But this did not mean the Democrats’ platform was as ‘liberal’ as the Republican one was ‘conservative.’ If there were a left party in America, it would care as much for the bottom tenth of the populace as the other party did for the top tenth.”

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