R. Bruce Dold

A month after a Serbian nationalist murdered Archduke Francis Ferdinand, son and heir of the Austrian emperor, the Austro-Hungarian Empire declared war on this date against Serbia. That led Austria's...

Last week I wrote about opening the records on adoptions, and it touched a nerve with many people. The stories they told me through calls and letters touched a nerve...

Sooner or later it's going to dawn on Jim Heiple and his pals that they didn't do him any favors by stacking the deck at the Illinois Courts Commission. Thanks...

The conservative elite on the East Coast who take it as their job to rule on such things have decided to consign Newt Gingrich to history and install a new...

If there were a market in child welfare futures, you'd rarely lose by selling short. Not when you get numbers like this: 28 children, 22 fathers, 22 lawyers, six mothers,...

As Yogi Berra might say, it's deja pollution all over again. One of the best things the Illinois legislature did last year was repeal the Retail Rate Law, which handed...

One of my best lessons in southern Illinois politics came with Paul Simon's 1984 campaign for the U.S. Senate, the one where he dusted Sen. Charles Percy and made amends...

When you head toward the Cicero town hall you see street banners that reflect the city's attempt to claim some culture. One reads: "Original birthplace of Ernest Hemingway." Like he...

For the last few years I've been trying to figure out whether Peter Fitzgerald is one of the brightest and most independent conservatives in Illinois politics, or just somebody who...

OJ. Simpson was never very likely to chase after me or my family, and to hear him tell it he wasn't likely to catch us even if he tried because...