Category: Chicago Chronicles

Articles about/reporting on Chicago events, issues, and people.

“Boosted!”, my review of Blair Kamin’s Who Is The City For?, is up at the New York Review of Architecture.

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 31, 2023

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles Labour Pandemic

Cheap Restaurants Are The Canaries In The Coal Mine

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 4, 2023

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

On Race, Brandon Johnson, and Chicago’s Mayoral Election

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 25, 2023

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles Politics

Today

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 25, 2022

Excerpt: I see less and less hope for the U.S with every passing day.

Academia Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles

On Race, Class, and Education

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 29, 2022

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles Feminism Prison industrial complex Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

We Created R. Kelly

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 28, 2021

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles

On the Obamas as Nouveaux Riches

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 19, 2021

Excerpt: Who among us, including landed gentry and nobility with four-hundred-year-old castles, are not always already nouveaux in our riches?

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles Politics

Obama’s Birthday Bash Is For Neoliberal Elites

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 4, 2021

Excerpt: As the first neoliberal president, the first such to think about himself as not merely a public figure but as an economic entity, Obama needed to monetise his legacy and make himself a desirable commodity that could in turn create an empire of wealth and influence for the elites he had cultivated over his eight years.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles Hate Crime Legislation

On Adam Toledo As A Child

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 16, 2021

How different would our responses be if Toledo had been an adult facing the police and dropping the gun in exactly the same situation?

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles Pandemic

On Guilt and Vaccinations

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 5, 2021

Guilt? We have no time for it.