Dennis Byrne

Unfortunately, the list of the media's 10 worst scare stories in 2004 already had closed before Reuters made a late, hard charge for the dubious honor. Even while bodies still...

The most important news about marriage comes to us not from the fiery furnace of the debate over same-sex marriage, but from the improving condition of heterosexual unions. In a...

Maybe American kids could read better if we knew exactly what was going on inside their heads when they struggle with the written word. Instead of our obsessing with test...

The sooner we concede that we can't cover every American with health insurance all at once, the sooner we'll get it done. Or at least come close to getting it...

The latest goat to be savaged by the media wolf pack is Rep. James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-Wis.) for blocking congressional legislation to overhaul the nation's intelligence apparatus. His sin? As...

Watching the media struggle on Election Night to grasp the news that moral values helped President Bush's victory was revealing--and amusing. A few honest journalists admitted they were caught off...

The Democrats are right: This election pits progressives against reactionaries. Except that Democrats are wrong to think that they're the progressives. If this sounds too stupid to be taken seriously,...

Having captured most of the formerly conservative and Republican North Shore suburbs, Chicago-connected liberal Democrats now are taking a shot at the GOP heartland in the far northwest suburbs. State...

Have you noticed the return of a 1950s icon? The--ugh--station wagon, after almost drawing its last breath a decade ago, is back. Sales are up; market share is growing. More...

Hard to imagine but some people actually have made a political issue out of the deadly hurricanes that ripped through Florida. And, wouldn't you know it, President Bush is getting...