Mike Royko

In my business, people are expected to take firm positions on public issues and not sit around wringing our hands and being wishy-washy. But I have to admit that I...

When there were only two of us, we'd go over to Humboldt Park, find a stretch of open grass, and one would hit fungo flies and the other would chase...

They're all over TV and the papers talking about crime: the president of the United States, his aides, members of Congress, lawyers, professors. They are promising this and that and...

It was a few years ago, and I don't remember the names or the specifics. But there was this man in the Deep South who had many of that region's...

The White House has brought in a new health-care czar. It is his job to pull everything together and get the Clintons' revolutionary plan turned into law. And I have...

Since my ill-advised series of limericks on the Bobbitts, I have avoided any mention of that unhappy couple. I learned my lesson. I was chided for my crudeness by numerous...

`Why are we here?" Slats Grobnik suddenly asked. Are you talking about the meaning of life? If so, I'll move down the bar. "Nah, I mean right now: What are...

Minutes after Bobby Inman backed out as the next secretary of defense because New York Times columnist William Safire was mean to him, I called 10 acquaintances and did a...

For days now, the media's cosmic thinkers have frantically sought deep social meaning in the attempt to bust the shapely leg of skater Nancy Kerrigan. At first, it was assumed...

Mary and Joe were flat broke when they got off the bus in Chicago. They didn't know anybody and she was expecting a baby. They went to a cheap hotel....