Jon Margolis

Would you like to know how presidential politics got this stupid? OK, here goes. First, some history, which can be brief because the current nominating system only goes back to...

It was a small conference, as conferences go. Its focus was more technical than emotional so there was not a network camera crew in sight. Maybe there should have been....

This is probably a lost cause, but let`s give it a whirl anyway, and make an effort to speak sensibly and without hysteria about the great House of Representatives banking...

''Route 66'' was very, very good to Martin Milner, but he knows that the TV show, in which he starred as Tod Stiles, wasn`t really about the highway. ''The name...

Eons ago, last month, Bill Clinton noted that ''we are paying the price for the littleness of our politics.'' True. And being less little than the others does not absolve...

Early in 1972, a New York State Republican leader who`d never much liked Richard Nixon nevertheless accepted an invitation for an evening at the White House. When he returned, he...

The arithmetic of politics does not always add up. The polls show that in Illinois and perhaps in Michigan, Jerry Brown will finish third Tuesday and Paul Tsongas will finish...

Just a few minutes before and a few blocks away, Herbert Davis`s candidate, whose name he could not quite remember, had made Ald. Dorothy Tillman (3rd) very happy by endorsing...

If only there were a bridge over Lake Michigan, the presidential candidates could go back and forth over it and the political week would get one of those cute nicknames-the...

By her own admission, or perhaps it was an assertion, the person answering the telephone at Paul Tsongas` Illinois campaign headquarters was ''possibly overqualified.'' She`s a lawyer. ''An unemployed lawyer,''...