Charles M. Madigan

I started writing this article in spring and finished in the fall. I had no idea this would bring me into lockstep with the cycles of life, but it did....

One might argue the title "World's Strangest Nuclear Basket Case" should have been retired with the Soviet Union, that curious amalgam of failed philosophy, wacky economics and geography that began...

If you were raised right in the 1950s, you came away with an assumption about life: If you behaved yourself, went to church, prayed, lived on the straight and narrow...

We are holding hands around a table in a dark room. A candle sits in the center of the table on top of some shreds from the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin,...

Election Day will be upon us sooner than any of us could have anticipated, which means we will go to the polls, once again, somewhat unprepared, and poke and prod...

The ice pack stretched out before me, and I was shocked to hear a loud thumping, a scratching, behind me. I turned and found the polar bear not more than...

I wish I could be in New York again in the little church across from the big hole where the World Trade Center towers stood. The city bustle has returned,...

Across the landscape of American history, events have burned themselves into the nation's psyche with so much heat and fire it seemed they would be with us for every waking...

Oh, for the days when Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was merely the sexiest man in the Bush administration, the heartthrob of the conservative distaff and in appearance, the Lionel Barrymore,...

I have had many good eats in my life, some of them quite exotic. I remember sitting cross-legged in a lovely carpet-lined yurt in Central Asia in 1977 with a...