Charles M. Madigan

With the arrival of a New Year, I have to say something about the continuing delights of life. An opportunity presented itself at the end of last year. A friend...

(A note: Your response to the request last week to write your own "Contract with America" was impressive. We will be publishing many of your suggestions in Perspective and at...

I took a side trip to 1994 the other day to refresh my memory about an important political tactic, Newt Gingrich's fabled "Contract with America." For the Republicans in the...

We have clearly outgrown both of our most traditional political party labels, Democrat and Republican, and the cheap "conservative" and "liberal" tags attached to them. None of it has any...

All polling numbers should be taken with a grain of salt, of course, because maybe everyone has changed their mind on subject A, B, or C between the time the...

It's Christmastime again, and the Christians, well, at least some of the Christians, are on the warpath against retailers who opt to describe this seasonal cash bonanza in less than...

In Jean Shepherd's hilarious "A Christmas Story," the family turkey is devoured on Christmas afternoon by dogs, forcing a trip to Chinatown, where the family eats a duck. Even if...

"What happened today that didn't happen yesterday. That's what news is. Start typing." Raymond R. Coffey, Tribune Washington bureau chief, 1983 For a long time, Ray Coffey's definition, crystal clear...

Many friends have asked me: "Charles, you have lost quite a bit of weight and can now see your feet! Tell us, how will we know when we have had...

Word came last week from "a senior administration official" that President Bush would be opening a new campaign to offset declining support for the war in Iraq, his own slumping...