Mike Royko

I am part of the nervous generation born about the time of the Great Depression that followed the disastrous stock market collapse of '29. So I grew up being told...

Robert DiSilvestro says he was just being a nice guy. When the little stray mutt wandered into his yard, he tried to shoo it away. But the dog looked hungry...

I first realized that we were undergoing a massive change in our social standards when my fearsome friend Big John, with fire and homicide in his eyes, was stopped dead...

At the risk of being accused of dealing in stereotypes, women have always struck me as being much better organized and efficient than men. In every crowded newsroom where I've...

There's no doubt that golfers are the most obsessive of sports equipment fanatics. They snap up overpriced stuff so high tech that unless they are physicists or engineers, they don't...

Millions of Americans have used a simple but effective method to quit smoking. One of them was my wife. A couple of them were my closest friends. Here's how they...

Being terribly misunderstood. It can be a risk for anyone who tries his hand at writing stuff for others to read. That was the unhappy fate of Nick D'Ascoli, a...

Letters, calls, complaints and great thoughts from readers: Al Krause, Chicago: How in the world could you defend a neo-Nazi bigot like that ignorant, bloated, foul-mouthed, drink-besotted Marge Schott? Your...

Here's a trade secret. The hardest column to write is the first one after a vacation. That's because I let myself go brain dead while away from the job. I...

One night, the late Charlie Finley and I were sitting at a table in the Billy Goat Tavern, where we used to meet occasionally for burgers, beer and baseball talk....