National Editorials and Columns

These flat escalators at the airport are my favorite thing to play on. My sister, Chardonnay, and I like to run in the wrong direction on th…

My first mistake was opening the refrigerator door. I opened it silently, but it emits a silent sound unknown to science that only cats can …

The last set of questions prosecutor Rachel Mitchell put to Christine Blasey Ford might have been the most remarkable. She asked whether For…

They say most people younger than age 30 these days wouldn’t recognize the sound of a needle scratching across a record.

Illinois isn’t going to tax its way out of its fiscal crisis. Higher taxes in a state that already i…

On Jan. 24, 2017, then-national security adviser Michael Flynn was questioned by the FBI in his White House office.

Almost every strange story I’ve read in the newspaper or seen on TV these past few months seems to have happened on an airplane.

Maybe we should just skip to the end.Is that sacrilege? Is it too cynical by half? After all, this i…

I am waiting in the "poor pathetic schmuck" line for my boarding pass at the airport. There are at least 30 people in front of me. In the ne…

It is important to look beyond the riot.  Yes, last week’s violent demonstration by white supremacis…