James Warren

A curse of the capital is the aversion to admitting that an orange may be just an orange. Chicago's Abner Mikva announced Wednesday that after a year as the president's...

"Yeah, I'm big on Volvos," conceded Colin Powell, an aggressively rational, practical man. Powell has bought, fixed, repainted and resold 30 old Volvos in the last decade. It started with...

A quirky soul who once worked night rewrite at the Chicago Sun-Times could do this: Rattle off how every U.S. county ever voted in presidential elections while compulsively making penguin...

In search of Sodbusters and Swampbusters, I had to find perhaps the only federal bureaucrat here with a ponytail. "Sodbuster," explained Jasper Womach, "is a conservation provision in the farm...

Vacations obviously don't get much worse than that of Rep. Mel Reynolds, returning home for his trial and conviction. But what's up with some of our other friends in Congress...

Given the choice between total nuclear destruction of the planet and a phony presidential straw poll among Iowa Republicans, the choice for the Washington press corps is clear. Go to...

Column writing, like journalism, is open to any knave, poseur and first lady. Thus, there is the prospect of the Unabomber's writing one for Penthouse magazine if he accepts publisher...

The man stopped at the Tribune honor box last week, looked at the Mel Reynolds headline and was counseled that the paper inside was a day old. Didn't matter, the...

"Think of CBS like it was a box of cereal," the advertising executive was saying, "and figure it was on the store shelf next to the boxes of its two...

It may say something about the federal government's "war on drugs" that a celebrated warrior is relegated to paralegal school in Chicago and mulling his next job. "I'll have my...