Christmas is coming, and for towns and municipalities across the nation ’tis the season to be worried—worried about lawsuits, that…
At Thanksgiving time, we were haunted by news photos of starving children in the heart of Somalia. Now as Christmas…
When Dr. Jack Kevorkian helped four women end their lives, the Chicago Tribune spoke out in favor of assisted suicide.…
In the presidential campaign Barbara Bush was interviewed on television one night by reporter Judy Woodruff. Judy phrased all her…
One of Jesus’ best-known parables is the Prodigal Son: the story of a young man who leaves his father’s home…
American journalists have become remarkably clumsy in handling news stories with a religious slant. And no wonder. As the profession…
This was the “Year of the Woman,” we were told. But there is one troubling note: All the women newly…
President-elect Bill Clinton was hoping to charge into Washington full steam, but already he’s hit a few rocks on the…
Capitol Hill is reeling under the shock of sexual harassment charges against Oregon Senator Bob Packwood, brought by several women…
A Senate race in Georgia doesn’t usually attract national attention, but the latest one did. In a surprising come-from-behind campaign,…
