Pritzker has used COVID-19 to push the Fair Tax, and Lightfoot to loosen the municipal purse strings. That could cost them the moral high ground needed to govern in a crisis. Read more
Keeping Chicagoans indoors is the most important civic project of Lightfoot's mayoralty. That she's leaning on humor to do it doesn't make her a cartoon character, but a sharp leader. Read more
According to the government's own numbers, Iran is one of the hardest-hit countries in the world. But Ahmad Obali thinks the truth is much worse. Read more
Nobody expected the billionaire hotel heir to be a strong governor. But during the COVID-19 crisis, he's made decisions shirked by leaders both below and above him. Read more
