Carol Felsenthal

It's often said that Washington is "Hollywood for ugly people.” With that caveat, and given the agonizing stalemate over lifting the debt ceiling, it’s a nice distraction to look at...

The president turns 50 on August 4th, and plans for his party on the day before have been in the works for months. Still, with Obama in the throes of...

The mayor goes with the University of Chicago's elite private school, getting testy when asked about it... and perhaps reveals his greater political ambitions.

When President Obama’s re-election team released the list of his top campaign fundraisers last week—about 20 were from the Chicago area—I noticed that Mesirow Financial Vice President Les Coney was...

There may be scores of reasons why Michele Bachmann shouldn't be president, but her migraines—the latest hot topic in campaign news—are not one of them...

Fred Karger, 61, has lived in and around Los Angeles since 1972—mostly now in Laguna Beach—but he grew up in Glencoe and graduated from New Trier. He’s about as likely...

Center stage in the debt limit/government default drama now playing in Washington is House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. Here in Chicago, Rahm Emanuel may be busy with the latest weekend...

Willard Mitt Romney—most recently in the news for out-fundraising his fellow GOP presidential hopefuls candidates in the second quarter—was named after J. Willard Marriott, the famous hotelier (and fellow Mormon)...

On Monday, after jurors in the Blagojevich retrial delivered a nearly sweeping guilty verdict, I called the gov’s brother, Robert. Below is an edited transcript of our conversation, in which...

Some questions and observations following today’s verdict in the retrial of the former governor: If you total the prison time from the 17 of 20 guilty counts, in addition to...