by Nick Patricca | Feb 17, 2024
Mike Johnson wants to rewrite the Constitution to make the United States a Christian nation. James Michael Johnson, Republican from Louisiana’s Fourth District, is the 56th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. He was elected Speaker on October 25,...
by Nick Patricca | Jan 8, 2024
The recent change in Vatican policy allowing priests to bless same-gender couples has provoked an unprecedented backlash against Pope Francis and his openness to LGBTQ+ people, a backlash that some fear might devolve into a schism in the Catholic Church. In Africa,...
by Nick Patricca | Nov 3, 2023
In June, at the Harold Washington Library in Chicago, Governor JB Pritzker signed legislation banning book bans in Illinois public libraries. This legislation, initiated by Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, passed the Illinois House and Senate in March by...
by Nick Patricca | Oct 20, 2023
Friday 27 October 2023 at 6:00 pm at HAYMARKET HOUSE 800 W BUENA AVE, CHICAGO, IL 60613 FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Fifty years ago on September 11, 1973, General Augusto Pinochet, Richard Nixon and the CIA executed a coup d’état against the...
by Nick Patricca | Sep 5, 2023
The Covid pandemic threw a harsh spotlight on higher education in America, exposing forces eating away at the foundations of college and university learning, calling into question the traditional purposes of such education in our post-modern, high-tech society. The...
