Mike Royko

The gray-haired Chicago man's memory was jogged by Shannon Faulkner's miserable experience at the Citadel military college. Like Faulkner, he had once gone through the misery of being a freshman...

At the risk of sounding sexist, I believe the brains of men and women work on different levels in certain areas of thought. The field of economics is one that...

Even lawyers will agree that there are times when the law and the pursuit of justice can be much too complicated. We're seeing an example of this needless complexity in...

Slats was dashing along the busy street, panting and sweating in the Chicago heat. "Can't talk," he gasped, "no time, gotta go, urgent business." I fell in beside him and...

There is a workable solution to the bitter dispute between Michael McCaskey and Mayor Richard Daley over the issue of a new football stadium for the Bears. It is a...

Someone recently sent me a copy of a publication called the American Family Association Journal. It contained one of the most unbelievable stories I have ever read. See if you...

By now, most of the nation knows the sort of cad that Sen. Robert Packwood is and the foul acts he commits. He goes around kissing women. On the lips....

It's impossible to read the minds of a jury. But my guess is that Beverly Heard has the Mel Reynolds jurors thoroughly confused. On the one hand, it appears to...

The history professor was talking on public radio about whether we really had to drop The Bomb on Japan. The professor's name was . . . I forget. Lately, there...

That famous but unidentified assassin, the Unabomber, has received an incredibly good job opportunity. Bob Guccione, the flamboyant publisher of Penthouse Magazine, has offered him a chance to write a...