Charles M. Madigan

I have been watching the same little 10-second report showing looters in New Orleans for quite a few days now. Maybe you have seen it, too, three kids, two skinny...

He had just finished the cup-shaped bottom of his popover when my friend leaned over to look hard into my face. He launched the big question. "What does Chicago need?"...

Sometimes you get yourself in a mood that just won't let you go, and my mood about Cindy Sheehan and what has flowed from her decision to protest the death...

As best I can tell, the intelligent design argument holds that God created everything and somehow decided, in the process, female praying mantises should chomp the heads from their mates...

For as long as the flappers can flap, there will be a great flapping over John Bolton's end-run appointment as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. President Bush will be...

I had to wait for my mother to die before I could disarm her. There have always been guns in my family. My great-grandfather Martin was a coal miner and...

At this point in life (56), you search around for all kinds of things. So lunchtime a few days ago carried me to an outdoor eating experience with three friends...

Last week we strove to clarify the problem between journalism and conservatives by strongly suggesting a lot of critics just can't handle bad news. In the wake of way too...

My plan was to trot out all the things I love about the Corporation for Public Broadcasting as a way of defending it from its internal and external enemies, who...

Late on a summer's night in a little town in Pennsylvania, my father-in-law called me into the kitchen. Like a lot of men in his generation, he was guarded with...