Eric Zorn

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

5-8-2025 (issue No. 192)This week:A programming note — The Tune of the Week is evolvingLast week’s winning quipA memorial salute to Michael Miner, including a remembrance from Mary SchmichBashing Trump— It’s necessary, but polls show not sufficient to move voters into the Democratic columnNews and Views— Hot takes, fully baked on the 2026 U.S. Senate race in Illinois, on what U.S. Rep.

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. Six children of Scott and Janet Willis of Chicago died in a fiery crash on Nov. 8, 1994 when a mudflap-taillight assembly fell off a truck and punctured the gas tank of the mini-van they were riding in on Interstate Highway 94 near Milwaukee.

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

5-1-2025, Rabbit rabbit (issue No. 191) This week: All about JB’s blockbuster speech in New Hampshire on Sunday Last week’s winning quip News and Views— Hot takes, fully baked That’s so Brandon!— Updates on the misadventures of Chicago’s maladroit mayor Land of Linkin’ —Where I tell readers where to go Squaring up the news— Where Charlie Meyerson tells readers where to go Mary Schmich — Quotes from a Nieman Storyboard interview with Schmich When life gives you lemmas … Nerding on wording:...

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

4-24-2025 (issue No. 190)This week:The battle to succeed Sen. Dick Durbin is officially onLast week’s winning quipNews and Views— Hot takes, fully baked on JB Pritzker’s political future, on the age of 80 in the newsand onthe RTA’s $750,000 ad campaign about its financial woesThat’s so Brandon!— Updates on the misadventures of Chicago’s maladroit mayor, including his decision to insult one of his Democratic predecessors and his interest in restarting gunshot detection technology.

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. We’ve known for more than three weeks now that, on March 15, undocumented Maryland resident Kilmer Abrego Garcia "was removed to El Salvador because of an administrative error,” according to the U.S. government’s own court filings.