R. Bruce Dold

An amazing thing has happened at the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. The relentless growth in the number of abused and neglected children washing into the system has...

Dick Lamm hasn't won an election in more than a decade, lost his last race to a guy who wears a pony tail and rides a Harley, and once said...

Let me ask a question: Are the members of your family more likely to get lung cancer or have a flunky from the White House requisition their FBI files? Neither...

If Chicago City Council members spent $8 million to erect a statue of F. Lee Bailey stuffing the Michael Jordan statue outside the United Center, they would never hear the...

I don't want to say that Rep. Henry Hyde is a pushover, but there are times when he is just a bit of a soft touch. There are plenty of...

Bill Clinton and Bob Dole have seemed more than content to reduce the presidential campaign to trivialities while allowing their public standing to rise and fall on whose rapid-response team...

Joshua Wallace is supposed to be a survivor. So why has he become a victim? He was 15 months old when his mother Amanda allegedly stood his older brother Joseph...

If the Republicans were clever, they would surrender their party's abortion plank and declare victory. They don't look like they're going to be clever. That might be because they're only...

Suppose the suburbanites who run the General Assembly decide today that the state capital will move from Springfield to Elmhurst. They justify this because the suburbs are now the biggest...

Bob Dole hasn't figured out all the angles to this judge-bashing shtick. As for the politics, well, obviously Dole has some poll that says America hates fuzzy-brained, pro-criminal judges, and...