John Cook

It's happening again. The second the bombs began lighting up the Baghdad skyline, I felt that old familiar feeling in the pit of my stomach--another world-shattering event of immense import...

I've been thinking about Mike a lot lately. He called recently--I didn't pick up--but his voice on the answering machine brought me back to the night five months ago when...

It has been a bad couple of weeks for nightlife. The bewildering deaths last month at the E2 nightclub here in Chicago and The Station in Rhode Island seemed to...

Future historians will pinpoint the precise moment when our world began its inexorable slide toward oblivion at shortly after 7 p.m. CST on Friday, Feb. 7, 2003. The beginning of...

President Bush could make a lot of people's lives a whole lot easier if he would only push back his plans to invade Iraq a few months to, say, July....

If you smoke, you're an idiot. In a manifestly uncertain world, that's a comforting, incontrovertible little formulation. We all know how frustrating it can be to come across someone whom...

The number of Jewish people living in the U.S. has declined by 5 percent in the last decade, and I think it might be my fault. News of the decline...

The FBI has initiated 24-hour surveillance on hundreds of young Muslims in the United States in furtherance of the war on terrorism, and my question is this: How long will...

I object to a line in a letter by Sharon Fleck Herman ("Too late for rage," Voice of the people, Oct. 13). That line states: "Any driver who crossed paths...