Jon Margolis

Though surely this was not his intent, Jeff Torborg illustrated Friday that ancient mystery of life by which an honest and reasonable person speaking with complete sincerity can say something...

For those who remembered him, it was almost as comforting to learn that Carl Furillo had lost his bitterness toward the end as it was unsettling to learn that he...

For reasons which are not entirely clear, there are things you can say when you`re not going to be around anymore which you probably oughtn`t to say if you`re going...

How about exposing the dirty little secret behind ''the L word.'' You want to know who`s a liberal? Well, you can look at members of the Democratic Party or the...

Take comfort. The Democrats in the Senate have chosen George Mitchell to be their leader. This means that the country is again in the hands of New Englanders. Those are...

The people of Canada have determined that their new trade agreement with the United States is no threat to their national independence. Let`s hope they were wrong. That way we...

Maybe we have not recovered after all from John Kennedy`s assassination. Oh, life goes on, all right, and it isn`t a bad life, either. More people live better now than...

There are, no doubt, lots of reasons why so many people didn`t vote last week, and two of them are George Bush and Michael Dukakis. But while the serious thinkers,...

It doesn`t make no difference who wins the presidential election. No, that is not a grammatical error. It`s just a way of saying that it does make some difference who...

As usual, political rhetoric detracts from the sum total of human knowledge. This year, not for the first time, the candidates are confused and confusing about just what is liberal...