Jon Margolis

Because the ridiculous can often illuminate the serious, we may be thankful to the silly spat burbling hereabouts between hunters and their foes for illustrating the dangers of zealotry. Montana`s...

''What rot!'' Thus scoffed an unnamed (aren`t they all?) aide in the employe of India`s Gandhi family to a New York Times reporter who asked about Mrs. Gandhi`s policy influence...

As will be demonstrated presently, though not now, this is an English lesson. It has been inspired by being put on hold, always an inspirational experience, during which a very...

To the list of battles in which neither side is admirable add the dispute in the exotic precincts of Palatine, where a fight over elementary school reading books pits medieval...

Among the joys of newspapers is that what is most interesting about them is often not what is most important. Or at least not what the editors judge is most...

If you`re wondering why your taxes keep going up, it`s because your taxes were cut. Illogical? Sure, but true. Well, sort of true. Actually, unless you are quite wealthy, your...

The course of least resistance, usually the wisest in public affairs, is the one being followed in this pragmatic city in the matter of its benighted, if candid, police superintendent....

We have too much information. It`s making us stupid. Did you know, just to take one recent disclosure, that the average member of a high school student council spends 2.4...

Considering that he is a criminal, Ronald Harmelin may well belong where he is, in a Michigan prison in the company of men who have committed murder, rape, assault and...

There is a word, perhaps impolitic but unquestionably accurate, that describes the effort being made to render it as certain as renderable that a Chicagoan of Hispanic descent gets elected...