As Summer Fades, America Prepares to Take Back Our Future

How Trump’s ethnic cleansing, the USS Lincoln’s anguish, big tech’s hubris and extreme weather all impacted the summer of 2026.

Edwin Eisendrath is the former CEO of the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Alderman who hosts It’s The Democracy Stupid on Lincoln Square and a weekly radio show on WCPT820AM/ Heartland Signal. Subscribe to his Substack.

Summer is drawing to a close.

Here in Chicago, that means the end of block parties, art fairs, and music festivals. Restaurants will begin …