Carol Felsenthal

As jury deliberations continue in the Blagojevich retrial, one of the city’s prominent criminal defense attorneys provides insights on the case. He says that Judge Zagel has acted uncharacteristically “screwy”...

A must-read investigation shows President Obama is appointing top funders to prestigious posts at a rate greater than his predecessor. Missing from report: two former Chicagoans with the best jobs...

A psychiatrist and psychoanalyst talks about how narcissistic behavior disorder frequently expresses itself through shopping in women, and sex in men.

Arnold Goldberg, a professor of psychiatry at Rush, discusses narcissistic personalities, the reality ego, and how Huma Abedin is Weiner's "narcissistic object choice."

Did Rod Blagojevich seriously think he could track down the al-Qaeda mastermind? It's not as farfetched as it sounds: it wouldn't have been the first time the former governor had...

The former mayor joins Katten Muchin Rosenman, making him colleagues with "the ultimate Daley insider": 64-year-old partner and rainmaker Terry Newman.

One of my favorite writers answers questions about politicians, hypocrisy and himself.

After the prosecution rested its case in the Blagojevich retrial last week, I called Rod’s old friend and lawyer Sheldon Sorosky to ask him whom the defense was going to...

After Election Day, Gery Chico—who fell short of a runoff with Rahm Emanuel—stayed out of the spotlight for a while. The former Daley chief of staff, who once ran Chicago...