What are U.S. Presidential Executive Orders? How do they work?
Executive orders are directives to executive agencies, says Dr. Dr. Steve Nawara, assistant professor of Political Science at Lewis University in Illinois. In this video, he continues to answer more questions about Executive Orders. How…
A Reading for African-American History Month
On February 28th New Trier High School on Chicago’s North Shore will offer its students a day-long seminar “Understanding the Struggle for Racial Civil Rights.” Invited guests include the acclaimed novelist Colson Whitehead, author…
Passwords on their death bed? Yahoo!
A billion user accounts have been hacked. Yahoo was the target of the attack. Sadly, it was only three months before When hackers stole 500 million more. Thieves took phone numbers and addresses And answers to your security questions.…
Resurfacing Bernardin’s “Seamless Garment”
The adage “the more things change, the more they stay the same” seems an apt introduction to offering a few thoughts about being a Catholic during an election year. Once again, the vitriol around what…
Economists Matter
Malcolm Berko asserted that Economics was a useless profession in his recent column piece “Economists Stink.” As an Economics department chair and professor for forty-nine years I feel qualified to respond to Mr. Berko’s allegation.…
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Ransomeware Goes Critical
A virulent strain of malware attacked critical infrastructures throughout Europe today. Croatia has been hardest hit so far, reminding many of…
Tough on Crime Policies Lead to Mass Incarceration
“Get tough” and “law and order” policies are what led…
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Impeachment and the Market or “Oh My God, there goes my 401K and IRAs into the dumper” Maybe Not!
Hill Story It was the day after Christmas 1954, a really cold day after a big snow and I was nine years old. My twelve-year-old sister decided we should go sledding with her friends. Off we went to the steepest hill around that had two…
Tumbling Downhill
Perhaps we’ll look back in a few years and see that three recent works published within a year of one another form a trilogy of non-fiction inquiries into the state of our nation and indirectly into the reasons for Donald Trump’s surprising triumph in 2016.…
The Bard Abroad
A MOST AUDACIOUS THEATER TOUR Dominic Dromgoole wants us to know that Shakespeare’s Hamlet is more than a story about “a melancholy Dane,” a young man bereft because of the murder of his father and the all-too-sudden marriage of his uncle to his widowed mother.…