Jon Margolis

No doubt Bill Clinton would not have appreciated its piquancy, but there would have been a nice ironic touch had his presidency been emasculated last week by a political attitude...

Don't be shocked, but not everyone involved in the current political debate is being entirely candid. This is not unprecedented, but here the major offenders are not the office-holders but...

"This year is for the fish," said Doug Persico, as the clouds gathered above, hinting at yet another day of rain. "This is the year they replenish themselves." Persico is...

Worse than not being able to get a decent meal at the Turnpike plaza here is not being able to get a local newspaper. "No, sir, we don't carry them...

So someone calls-this is several weeks ago-and in the course of the conversation asks whether Susan Lucci would finally win an Emmy this year. Who? You mean you don't know...

The people don't approve of President Clinton because of his policies. Or so says a poll, and polls can't lie, can they? Sure they can, and they often do, not...

As to pop culture, do you suppose we could do away with it? No, probably not. It has become part of the landscape. But it wasn't always. In fact, it...

The very existence of Vaclav Havel should embarrass Americans. After all, if a semi-poor country of just 15.7 million-which is what Czechoslovakia was-can elect one truly erudite and eloquent person...

The following, almost verbatim but edited so it will fit it into this space, comes from a recent edition of Hotline, the daily political news summary. It is a description...

This will probably not come as a shock, but some of our public servants are not being entirely forthright. "Liar" is such a blunt word. Let's just say there is...