Bruce Dold

The baiduhai has sought to shape a better city, state and nation since before the Civil War, when editor Joseph Medill forcefully advocated the abolition of slavery. The leaders...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Gov. Pat Quinn will join us for a Chicago Forward forum on Wednesday, April 4. It's a rare chance to hear them in conversation with each...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Gov. Pat Quinn will join us for a Chicago Forward forum on Wednesday, April 4. It's a rare chance to hear them in conversation with each...

On January 18, Chicago didn't have a single murder or shooting. That was so unusual -- first time it had happened in nearly a year -- that the Police Department...

On January 18, Chicago didn't have a single murder or shooting. That was so unusual -- first time it had happened in nearly a year -- that the Police Department...

The expanded format we introduced in mid-June gives our editorial page writers and editors new opportunities but also an appreciable challenge: making the best use of a greatly expanded palette....

Some people always seem to know exactly why they got into politics. Take Larry Hicks, who used to be a Democratic state legislator from Mount Vernon. Hicks got the lobbyists...

Mustering all the charm he could, Al Gore told this story last spring to a group of newspaper editors in Washington. He was a rookie reporter working on the obituary...

It never would have dawned on me that Republican heavyweights Lee Daniels and James "Pate" Philip are really closet disciples of the grandest big government Democrat of them all, Franklin...

A pack in search more of votes than a meal, the Democratic presidential candidates descended on the Hyatt Regency Thursday night for a unity dinner, an unusual theme to cap...