Mike Royko

Richard Nixon may not have known it, but he got his revenge on the press, or the media, as it is now called. Throughout his long political career, he didn't...

I have to begin by saying that this story is kind of crazy. It concerns a man named Jack Draper, who owns a water-bed and bedroom furniture store in Evansville,...

Listening to Scott Wallace, it seems obvious that he was arrested for a ridiculous reason. He simply wanted his mail delivered. That's right. Like many Chicagoans, he is unhappy with...

While chatting with a young audience on MTV, President Clinton was asked about the deep sense of "emptiness" that so many youths feel in their lives. The president responded with...

It is only fitting that Barbara Wine, a Near North Side resident, would come to me with a question on etiquette. As she put it: "Since you are Chicago's finest...

The White Sox fan was being gleefully condescending, in a brutally frank sort of way. "Boy, are your Cubs pathetic," he said. What could I say? So far, pathetic is...

Here are some of the reasons why I have such deep admiration and respect for the Congress of the United States and the thousands of federal bureaucrats who oversee our...

Forget about Singapore for a moment. We have flogging in this country, and most of the time it isn't considered a big deal. Consider what happened to Jos e and...

It's a little late for New Year's resolutions, but I'll make one anyway. I swear that I will never again write anything even mildly critical of the heroic President Clinton...

A well-known sports singer can't leave a restaurant without his throat being blown open. Every Monday this paper does a roundup story of the weekend's murder and mayhem-the gang members...