Politics

Most people couldn't tell you what the Illinois Comptroller actually does. Karina Villa is betting that's exactly the problem. The state senator from West Chicago launched her campaign for the office with a l...

When Dick Durbin announced he was stepping down from his U.S. Senate seat, Juliana Stratton didn't wait to see what the political landscape looked like. She was the first major Democrat to file. That kind of ...

In 2019, Bushra Amiwala became the youngest Muslim elected official in the United States and the first Gen Z woman to hold elected office anywhere in the country. She was 21 years old. Now at 28, with a Forbe...

In 2021, Illinois became the first state in the country to eliminate cash bail. The person who made that happen wasn't a governor or a presidential candidate. It was Robert Peters, a state senator from the So...

When Kina Collins talks about the West Side of Chicago, she's not talking about a campaign stop. She's talking about home. Born and raised in the Austin neighborhood, Collins grew up watching her father head ...

Wiz Khalifa's Romania prison sentence exposes the dangerous gap between U.S. cannabis culture and international drug laws.

Cardi B tells 164M followers to vote for Crockett. Paxton claps back with 'Team Nicki Minaj' in $110M Texas Senate race.

19 charged in Philly drill rap gang case. 5 dead, 35 shot. But the real question is whether prosecution without prevention is actually policy.

Ye's lawyers argue his Nazi comments to a Jewish employee were artistic expression, weeks after his public antisemitism apology.

A 78-year-old congressman from Houston did what the entire hip-hop industry wouldn't: stand up, hold up the truth, and get dragged out for it. Two days after the longest State of the Union in history, the silence from the culture is deafening.