Trayvon Martin could have been any of our sons, so I was not especially moved by that remark of President [Barack] Obama's.

I've talked to dozens of Chicagoans who will only go off the record in talking about the manufactured mythology.

President [Barack] Obama's pick of Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education was abysmal.

While the banks got big bailouts, a sizeable chunk of African-American wealth evaporated because so many people lost homes.

I think that ranked-choice voting makes a lot of sense.

I do know that, you know, Donald Trump has a global portfolio, and many global investors are in Russia.

It was quite a process to narrow more than 400 columns down to 80. I write weekly, though, and I don't always write about President [Barack] Obama, so that was the easy elimination.