Charles M. Madigan

It's easy to pick on the Russians. They miss being a world power. They seem to be up to their eyes (as always) in intrigues. The old joke seems to...

I am standing in Red Square in front of Lenin's tomb. There is no Soviet Army honor guard out front. In fact, Lenin faces the vast GUM department store; perhaps...

A few weeks ago, we were in the town of Summit, Pa., which sits, appropriately, at the top of a mountain on the Pennsylvania-Maryland border, when I heard a comment...

Let us now dash into the gathering fogs of the 2008 presidential contest, in which Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) will be the "most-watched" character since, well, since the last most-watched...

A friend asked me what to tell a teenager about how to be a man. This is a very hard question. It just so happened that within a day of...

There is, perhaps, no better lyric about contrition than: "I'm sorry, so sorry, please accept my apology." These simple, beautiful words come down to us from the 1950s and 1960s...

One of my favorite pieces of art hangs in the Milwaukee Art Museum. It is a huge tapestry, a masterpiece aimed at sending an important message to those in government....

Instead of reaching out and wagging my finger at potential voters, which is a civic duty cliche many columnists turn to on Election Day, I would like to reach out...

I can't get the description "white evangelical Protestants" out of my head, and it is colliding in there with images of a woman I have come to feel quite badly...

On the eve of an election in which Illinois voters will pick a governor, members of Congress and a whole batch of other folks, there is but one "issue," based...