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Marty Levine July 6, 2025 Last week, just hours after President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” passed through Congress, I received an email from the Social Security Administration celebrating its...

A Guest essay from my friend David Wagner The Problem(s) In 2015 when Trump first came down the escalator, so many concerns were voiced by so many of us across...

Marty Levine July 1, 2025 Zohran Mamdani’s victory in last week’s Democratic Mayoral Primary election seemed to many Democratic Party leaders to be a sky-is-falling moment. And for many...

  Carole Levine, Chair: Courts Matter Illinois June 23, 2025 We hear all kinds of “pithy quotes” these days and many of them relate to our courts and judges. ...

Marty Levine June 20, 2025 If you are like me, you are very worried now that our government has taken Benjamin Netanyahu’s bait and joined a war on Iran. ...

Marty Levine June 12, 2025 Tuesday night saw mass protests against Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown spread across the country. Here’s how Block Club Chicago described the scene in my...

Marty Levine June 4, 2025 For four weeks, while we traveled across Southeast Asia, I was able to put aside some of the political turmoil in our country. But,...

  Marty Levine May 27, 2025 I just returned from four weeks in Southeast Asia, visiting Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. This was a trip I had wanted to...

  Marty Levine April 22, 2025 The ADL today released its most recent dataset on antisemitic incidents in the US – its Audit of Antisemitic Incidents 2024. They found...

  Carole Levine      April 18, 2025 There was a glimmer of hope on April 7th, but just a glimmer, in the admittedly wrongful deportation case of Kilmar...