Jon Margolis

Quick! Who`s the Cook County Democratic chairman? It`s no disgrace not to know. Only a few people can identify Tommy Lyons, a former state senator, as the successor to Richard...

Poor Alan Dixon! Oh, he`ll probably keep his job. Still, it`s hard not to feel sorry for a guy whose strength all of a sudden becomes his weakness and who...

''There are many differences between Congressman Rostenkowski and I,'' said Dick Simpson to a gathering at a YMCA on Irving Park Road. Well, it could have been a slip of...

The poise, candor and grace with which George Bush has met Pat Buchanan`s assault has no recent parallel, save perhaps last year`s deportment by the Iraqi army. In this war,...

The poise, candor and grace with which George Bush has met Pat Buchanan`s assault has no recent parallel, save perhaps last year`s deportment by the Iraqi army. In this war,...

The early returns are in, and they are encouraging, providing preliminary evidence-no more can be expected-of an end to the era in which autobiography replaced ideas. The evidence is that...

The American people have shown insufficient gratitude toward Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa for the compliment he has paid them, perhaps because compliments were not his intention when he proclaimed...

And when he spake these thrilling words, the President of the United States, then did his followers in the Congress cheer, many rising from their seats, a dedicated army prepared...

All those seminars. All those position papers. All those vows that this time would be different. But here we go again, all a-tizzy about a presidential candidate`s sex life. What...

Pay attention, now. This could get confusing. We are about to enter that misty realm where the political meets the metaphysical. Here is what we know: Bill Clinton, the governor...