R. Bruce Dold

Thanks to Bill Clinton, I had a brief conversation with my 13-year-old daughter this week about whether the president of the United States had an affair with a young intern...

Since I've never gotten enough credit in this town for my indomitable Irish grandmother, and since Dold doesn't exactly sound like it traces a direct line to County Cork, I've...

John Schmidt's too liberal. Roland Burris is washed up. Jim Burns blew his chance. And that's why one of Illinois' most powerful Democrats, House Speaker Michael Madigan, has aligned himself...

Greasing a pick for U.S. attorney doesn't carry quite the same whiff of intrigue as slipping away for a secret rendezvous with a vicious Nigerian dictator. But something about Sen....

Patrick Murphy won. So why isn't he smiling? The Cook County public guardian has been railing for years against a child-welfare system that took "family reunification" as its mantra. Often,...

A few years ago I was on the floor of the Illinois Senate when I overheard a freshman Republican talking to one of the long-timers. It was the end of...

With reports of defections from the Irish Republican Army and its political arm, Sinn Fein, Gerry Adams was asked last week why he couldn't steer his supporters in line. Why...

The English have been on a long, giddy pub crawl of late. They love their new prime minister, Tony Blair, who has a loopy, toothy grin and lets his kids...

Workers are re-creating the high pillars, ornate ceiling and long wooden benches of the House of Commons at Stormont, which was destroyed by a fire in 1995. This might be...

On paper, Comptroller Loleta Didrickson is the Republican Party's dream candidate. Moderate. Suburban. Woman. Secretary of State George Ryan, on the other hand, is a conservative from Kankakee and obviously...