The year 2021 was the worst year for violent crime in nearly three decades. Over 1,000 homicides took place in Cook County last year. Crime especially violent crime is always a significant issue to voters in Chicago, and the recent surge could be the tipping point for the mayoral race on Feb. 28,.
Since Merrick Garland was first sworn in as attorney general in March 2021, the ongoing investigation into the Jan. 6 insurrection on the Capitol has largely come to define his tenure as chief lawyer of the United States. Just over a year later, a series of recent developments have placed great new pressures on him.
The DePaulia
Rebecca Meluch, News Editor|May 23, 2021
In 2007, former DePaul political science professor Norman Finkelstein was denied tenure. The decision initiated a national controversy about personal feuds in academic settings, violations of academic freedoms and outside interference in tenure processes.
This past weekend, Finkelstein told The DePaulia in an exclusive interview that for the first time since the incident, he is ready to revisit history and demand an apology from the university.
“After the DePaul debacle I was never able to teach again,” Finkelstein said. “I never had another job because my name had been so blackened. And because of DePaul, I was destroyed and I want an apology. I want an apology for what they put me through.”
The DePaulia
Nika Schoonover, Politics Editor|February 14, 2021
Despite his best efforts to tout “progress,” President Joe Biden is still reminiscent of past eras of American politics in which promises of social change are over-promised and under-served.
With a gridlocked Congress, Biden now faces the difficulty of following through on the policy change he has promised throughout his campaign while attempting to unite ever-growing divisions between the two parties.
At any other time, Biden’s election into the presidency would be just that: business as usual. Except, it’s not just any other time. As a nation, we are just coming out of the Trump presidency –– a presidency that revealed a growing far-right extremist movement and has made many more fervently question the foundations of American democracy.