Commentary Whole server racks (the equivalent of whole forests in the print era) have been sacrificed to stories about “The Retail Apocalypse” and the “Death of Retail.” All the stories present a binary view: retail is dead; retail isn’t dead. The truth lies somewhere in between. Retail, broadly speaking, is doing well. But retail covers…

Commentary Mark down Tuesday, April 4, as the night Chicago died. That’s when we learned that Second City voters narrowly elected Brandon Johnson as their next mayor. This is a city that was flattened during the reign of Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who lost in the first round of voting for Chicago mayor because she didn’t…

Commentary There was something deeply demoralizing about the recent Mayoral election in Chicago, once among America’s greatest cities. The good news is that the catastrophic reign of a deeply corrupt and crazed mayor, who piled egregiously racist policies on top of one of the worst COVID responses in the country, came to an end. The…