Mike Royko

`Sometimes I wonder why we haven't all committed mass suicide, because we don't have a hell of a lot to look forward to." That is a quote from a page...

Dirty Harry, the movie cop, wasn't wrong very often. A bit nasty and heavy-handed with criminals. But in the end, he was usually right. But in one of my favorite...

Dan Rostenkowski is drawing the heat. But several other Chicago congressmen are nothing for the city to brag about. Let's start with the new darling of the media and Washington...

While flipping through the cable TV channels, I was stopped by the sight of a large number of men and women who seemed to be afflicted with some terrible nervous...

I am going to make a statement. You tell me if it is racist. Black athletes appear to be able to jump higher and sprint faster than white athletes. I...

As a liberal reformer, Dick Simpson could be expected to oppose the practice of lynching. And as a University of Illinois at Chicago professor, he surely knows that our legal...

We aren't the only country where people have thin skins and political correctness is on the rise. To my surprise, the same symptoms are being shown in Scandinavian countries, which...

There has been a startling change in the socioeconomic profile of the high-speed driver on Chicago-area expressways. This was disclosed in a recent study released by Dr. I.M. Kookie, the...

While snorkeling with his kid in Hawaii, President Clinton found himself in one of those no-win situations that politicians hate. He was taking a brief vacation, which he surely deserved....