Michael Miner
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Past articles by Michael:
Who's that speaking for the Sun-Times this time?
The legacy of the Sun-Times—what's that? → Read More
Who can say who wrote that unsigned New York Times essay? Who can say but shouldn't?
The ethical swirl around the op-ed by an anonymous White House official? → Read More
Truth, belief, and The Americans
When it began I thought The Americans was kind of silly. No longer. → Read More
Dealing with slaughter in the schools, Congress should follow the example of John Wayne
Congress should tell killers of schoolchildren to pick on someone their own size. → Read More
Life after Sylvia: Cartoonist Nicole Hollander publishes a memoir
We Ate Wonder Bread is a graphic memoir of growing up on the west side in the 50s and 60s. → Read More
The Post is a Happy Days for old journalists
Steven Spielberg's film is a reminder of how much fun journalism can be. → Read More
Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury, and the question of when we get to say the hell with the rules
Should reporters break their word? Should lawyers? Anybody? → Read More
Have sportswriters changed their minds about football teams that let the opponents score?
The matador defense comes to the NFL. → Read More
Joe Ricketts, DNAinfo, and the fearsomeness of labor
Unions give conservative billionaire Ricketts the willies. → Read More
The mysterious case of the Chicago Reader ‘time machine’
A newspaper box stocked with decades-old Reader issues recently turned up on the north side. Who's behind this phantasmagorical contraption? → Read More
Susana Mendoza might have just won her next election
Chicago magazine political writer Carol Felsenthal interviewed Susana Mendoza in 2011 and came away "convinced"—as she would later write—that Mendoza "saw herself moving up from clerk to mayor." She's since moved on to state comptroller, but that's another stepping-stone position. Felsenthal wrote about Mendoza back then to report palpable tension between Mendoza and the mayor, Rahm Emanuel, and… → Read More
Judge Richard Posner on those incompetent justices who graded his papers
Richard Posner doesn't leave the bench quietly. → Read More
Removal of Confederate statues tidies up southern history—but it doesn’t touch the grease stains
Meanwhile the proposed HBO series Confederate is based on the premise that the south won the Civil War. → Read More
The new owner’s kid brother used to work here
TV writer John Eisendrath on his brother's acquisition of the Chicago Reader and Chicago Sun-Times → Read More
Coverage of Trump is negative—for good reason
A new Harvard study looks at the media's take on President Trump's first 100 days. → Read More
Tronc will likely be Sun-Times's new owner. And the Reader?
If Tronc keeps the Sun-Times going will it preserve the Reader too? → Read More
The dividing line between the U.S. and Canada
An addendum to Adam Gopnik's argument that "we could have been Canada." → Read More
Former Sun-Times publisher returns to Chicago—to represent Canada
John Cruickshank now serves as Canada's consul general here. → Read More
Pledge drives flourish at public media in Chicago
WBEZ and WTTW both had more-successful-than-expected drives this year. → Read More
If journalists know how to do anything, it's salute our own
* Sun-Times Archive * Legendary columnist Mike Royko died 20 years ago this month. Rick Kogan's tribute to Mike Royko in the Sunday Tribune delivered the sad news that "there is no immortality for newspaper writers" and dusted off Ben Hecht's immortal verse to that effect: > We know each other's daydreams And the hopes that come to grief For we write each other's obits And they're Godalmighty… → Read More