Eric Zorn (born January 6, 1958) is an American former op-ed columnist and daily blogger for the Chicago Tribune who specialized in local news as well as politics.
[4] After serving a four-month internship at the Miami Herald, Zorn started working for the Chicago Tribune in summer 1980.
[9] When Alden Global Capital took control of the Chicago Tribune in the spring of 2021, Zorn was among the many columnists and other journalists who accepted a buyout offer from the company.
Zorn is a Democrat and has stated, "I'm a Democrat because I think man-made climate change is real, that it's vile to discriminate against people because of their sexual orientation or gender identity, that access to quality health care should be a right, that the death penalty should be abolished, that income inequality should be diminished and that we shouldn't privatize public education.
I'm a Democrat because I believe it should be hard to buy a gun—especially if you're on a law-enforcement watch list—and that every firearm should be registered, licensed and easily tracked ... organized labor and 'big government' interventions are needed to smooth out the roller-coaster ride of free-market capitalism.