Thanks to a deal finalized in 2008, Chicago’s parking meters will be operated for the next 75 years by a group of investors put together by Morgan Stanley, including the sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dhabi.

Every city is either vibrant these days or is working on a plan to attain vibrancy soon. The reason is simple: a city isn't successful - isn't even a city, really - unless it can lay claim to being 'vibrant.'

During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period of hardship for billionaires.

Republicans run the machine when it's their turn, and then hand the wheel over to Democrats when the public has had enough.

Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution.

There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source.

I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.