Jon Margolis

So, with a year to go, there may be a real presidential election after all. Not that it is any less foolish to conclude that President Bush`s recent fall from...

To visit Harvard is to remember how impressive are the students and faculty at . . . oh, Iowa State comes to mind. It comes to mind because of the...

In this fair land, once a crisis has passed, it is customary to wax eloquent about how the system worked, the orderly processes of democracy prevailed and all is well....

Nothing much has changed. It`s just that where Joseph McCarthy called his points of order, Estes Kefauver cross-examined gangsters, John F. Kennedy announced his presidential candidacy and Sam Ervin proclaimed...

The latest revelations about the Central Intelligence Agency prove only that the agency, its champions and its critics have all been taking it far too seriously. Not that it serves...

What a historic week it was! No, not the nuclear weapons thing. That was good, too, but the week had been historic even earlier. Just ask Robert M. Wright. It...

The legal triumph of Oliver North contains several ironies and at least one lesson. The ironies are new. The lesson is not, but maybe we can get it right this...

Far from the madding crowd, it turns out, is another madding crowd. Even where the crowds are sparser, they are no less mad. Otherwise, the Billings Chamber of Commerce`s next-door...

While the world`s attention has been diverted by disputes over such trivia as Soviet coups, unemployment compensation and the American League, the guys who consider really big questions have gotten...

Shortly before 9 o`clock one recent evening, a fisherman who had spent more than a week catching small trout or none at all spotted a fish rising several yards upstream...