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Eric Zorn

Chicago, New York

Proprietor of the Picayune Sentinel newsletter. Mincing Rascal. Emeritus Chicago. Tribune columnist. Fiddler. Heterodox liberal. [email protected]

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Articles

  • This issue is so good you will not even [blank] it

    1 week ago | ericzorn.substack.com | Eric Zorn

    To read this issue in your browser, click on the headline above. Tuesdays at 11:30 a.m. I talk with WGN-AM 720 host John Williams about what’s making news and likely to be grist for the PS mill. The WGN listen-live link is here. The Masters tournament — the first of professional golf’s four annual major events — is a compelling event nearly every year, with high drama on the very interesting, very challenging course at Augusta National Golf Club.

  • 'Stupid Don' smartly retreats in the tariff wars

    2 weeks ago | ericzorn.substack.com | Eric Zorn

    4-10-2025 (issue No. 188)This week:Could Trump be retreating in the trade war?

  • Plus April 1

    3 weeks ago | ericzorn.substack.com | Eric Zorn

    To read this issue in your browser, click on the headline above. Tuesdays at 11:30 a.m. I talk with WGN-AM 720 host John Williams about what’s making news and likely to be grist for the PS mill. The WGN listen-live link is here. The stakes are huge in Wisconsin on Tuesday.

  • Dark days at 'The Bright One' as the Sun-Times sheds 20% of its staff

    1 month ago | ericzorn.substack.com | Eric Zorn

    3-20-2025 (issue No. 185)This week:The latest on the exodus at the Sun-TimesQuip Madness and the Tweet SixteenPolls are looking lousy for Democrats, which may be why Sen.

  • The madness continues! Take your mind off the real news with both of our jokes tournaments

    1 month ago | ericzorn.substack.com | Eric Zorn

    To read this issue in your browser, click on the headline above. Tuesdays at 11:30 a.m. I talk with WGN-AM 720 host John Williams about what’s making news and likely to be grist for the PS mill. The WGN listen-live link is here. Below are five brackets pitting the winners of the weekly poll from the past year against one another. Select your favorite in each bracket. There will be five more brackets next Tuesday, and the winners will advance to the next round:Next Tuesday will be the second round.

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Eric Zorn
Eric Zorn @EricZorn
22 Apr 25

RT @RpsAgainstTrump: Pete Hegseth (2016) on Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server: “Any security professional, military, governm…

Eric Zorn
Eric Zorn @EricZorn
22 Apr 25

The week's best visual jokes are in a battle for supremacy in this morning's Picayune Plus. @WilliamAder @pourmecoffee & @MensHumor are among the finalists. https://t.co/bnLmAjitF0

Eric Zorn
Eric Zorn @EricZorn
22 Apr 25

I’ll be chatting with @WGNKINGJOHN on WGN-AM 720 at 11:33 am Chicago time. Listen live link: https://t.co/dP4V9F4sMr https://t.co/vveoTQHDM4