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Humanity’s cancer shows up in Israel and Palestine. Missiles fly, hell makes global headlines, thousands of people die, many of them (oh…
Robert Koehler
Robert Koehler is an award-winning, Chicago-based journalist and nationally syndicated writer. Koehler has been the recipient of multiple awards for writing and journalism from organizations including the National Newspaper Association, Suburban Newspapers of America, and the Chicago Headline Club.
Something happened on Tuesday, as I began researching this column — I wound up having to give myself a COVID test. A…
It’s 10 p.m. at Montrose Harbor in Chicago. Kiko and Tamar help me step from the dock into the wobbly rowboat. Kiko…
“The greatest danger to human civilization and the planet is the inability to believe that tomorrow can be different . . .”…
As the heatwave intensifies across the country, as workers exposed to the heat collapse on the job in increasing numbers — some…
“A 4-year-old girl passed out in 100-degree heat after she was pushed back toward Mexico by Texas National Guard personnel. A pregnant…
“. . . we need to do everything we can to keep (global) warming as low as possible.” When it comes to climate change,…
A mere 55 years after his death, the U.S. government has restored J. Robert Oppenheimer’s security clearance, which the Atomic Energy Commission…
A tiny piece of news out of Florida the other day poked me, you might say, in the rear end. The nation’s…
There’s a crucial, overlooked aspect of Daniel Ellsberg’s legacy that’s very much worth saluting, you might say: his transformation from a believer…