Mike Royko

If any criminal mastermind in Chicago has been planning a big-time caper, this might be an excellent time to get it going. I've never given advice to a criminal before,...

A recent medical study has shown what many fans of Woody Allen movies have long taken for granted: Jewish men tend to be more depressed than the rest of us....

A friend caught me studying the baseball standings and he laughed. "You aren't getting your hopes up over the Flubs, are you?" he said. I ignored his use of the...

A look of disbelief spread across the young executive's face. It was a look I've seen many times. "You've got to be kidding," he said. And I've heard that many...

It's tempting. We rarely get so obvious a target as Phil Gramm, the Texas senator who wants to become president. Like most Republicans, Gramm is a champion of middle-class, grass-roots...

Somewhere out there, a practical joker is laughing with malicious glee at his triumph. But he could also be a bit disappointed at how little public attention it has received....

It's about time that Jack O'Malley, the Cook County state's attorney, receive praise and glory for cracking down on men who have sex with underage females. This is the crime...

As part of the modern American ritual of building up a public figure for the pleasure of dragging him down, the inevitable trashing of Michael Jordan has begun. And at...

The gleaming bike was in the window of a shop in a small Wisconsin city. One look and I was inside talking to the owner. Yes, he said, it was...

Ozzie Guillen, who plays baseball for the White Sox, is unhappy with the fans. Although the strike has ended, he says fans are being unusually abusive and he doesn't understand...