Abandoning all reason
If I understand this correctly, Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., has been cast into the outer darkness by those he once regarded as allies in the anti-abortion movement because he dared...
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What the president should have said
Barack Obama, I am afraid, sealed his fate as a one-term president Wednesday night. His State of the Union address was an opportunity missed. The speech was a chance for...
Movin’ on: The circle closes
The irony is almost too great. The seed of my vocation as a journalist was planted on Dec. 4, 1969, when I awoke in my one-room apartment at East 47th...
`Simpsons’ trumps the 1st
It was buried Wednesday in the Metro section, just above an ad for a chain of liquor stores and just below stories on Illinois' shortcomings in mental health services and...
Unforgivable: Not learning from errors
Mr. Wycliff: I did a search of Tribune archives and found that at least once before, the Tribune has published a cartoon depicting the Islamic Prophet Muhammad--a Don Wright cartoon...
Did the Tribune snub Poland’s president?
For most of the last week, there has been a steady trickle of e-mails and phone calls to the public editor's office from members of Chicago's huge Polish community, taking...
Thinking out loud
Dear Mr. Wycliff: I am writing this brief message to you and the Tribune generally to ask why the Tribune has not run the Danish caricatures and editorial page cartoons...
Secrecy’s corrosive effect in terrorism case
Muhammad Salah has been on my conscience for the last 13 years. Salah is the fellow from Bridgeview who is awaiting trial in federal court here for allegedly conspiring with...
The importance of point of view
A lady called last Friday afternoon to ask about the headline on the lead story that day. It read: "Bin Laden warns of attacks." That was followed by a subhead:...
Do we really need to give any space to steamy topics?
The volume of reader complaints about most topics ebbs and flows. Political issues, for example, get heavy attention in election years, lighter notice at other times. But complaints about issues...