Chicago Network for Justice & Peace

The Trump administration has destroyed one of the most successful programs in the history of the U.S. federal government: the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. PEPFAR, a U.S. government initiative to combat the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, was launched in 2003 by President George W. Bush. Every president...

I grew up in the Larimer Avenue district of East Liberty, Pittsburgh, in a first-generation Italian American family. We were poor, and books were a luxury we did not have. Yet every day, my grandfather Pasquale read the Italian-language newspaper. He had taught himself to read Italian while working in the orchards...

While Trump was celebrating his birthday reviewing a military parade, the people of Rogers Park were celebrating their commitment to living together in harmony with works of mural art on the Loyola Park seawall. Every Father’s Day weekend since 1993, Rogers Park residents celebrate the richly diverse peoples and...

This article is the fourth in a series examining the attacks on US higher education. Links to the previous three articles are posted at the end of this essay published 12 May 2025 in Windy City Times. The middle two essays were written collaboratively with my Loyola University Chicago colleague Arthur Lurigio. ...