John McCarron

You watch from a distance as the couple drifts apart. Slowly you realize they're headed for divorce. Which is too bad, because you wanted the best for both. When they...

There is one more possible explanation for what has been called Gulf War Syndrome, one so controversial that no career politician or military officer dares raise it in public. But...

There are many reasons why the reputation of government--all levels of government--is hitting new lows with the American people. There was the decline and fall of the Soviet Union (the...

It has come to my attention that considerable confusion exists about all the buying, selling, building and leasing of government offices in and around downtown Chicago. Certain hopelessly uninformed individuals...

Bring back Wacker's Manual. That's my advice to Illinois politicians out to improve the accountability of our state's public schools. The little textbook might even improve the accountability of the...

If you liked Chicago's 1992 World's Fair, you're going to love the 2008 Olympic Games. What's that? You say Chicago never did pull off that 1992 fair? Well, of course...

Count me among those who couldn't care less whether Newt Gingrich stays or goes as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. There is, however, something hugely important that might...

For all his insight into the workings of the human mind, Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, never did "get it." "The great question," he once said, "which I have...

The news burst like a shell last week over our sleepy state capitol. Lobbyists were talking about it at the brass rail under the statehouse rotunda. Legislative staffers were buzzing...

If it were in Schaumburg, I'd hate it. But it's on State Street, a stone's roll from the Chicago River. So I say: Welcome to Chicaguh, you not-so-genuine House of...