Jon Margolis

Let's hear it for the French. Vive Les French. OK, that wasn't too French. But it's the thought that counts. And why are we praising the French? Because they don't...

Among the surest signs of decadence are the perversion of history and the perversion of science. The combination is depressing. But instructive, as the latest example demonstrates. It's only a...

It's a little late. What happened last week should have happened 10 years ago. When Ronald Reagan was re-elected in 1984, his party should have taken control of Congress. If...

Dear Citizen, Are you confused about this election business? First, one party was going to sweep the world. Then it wasn't. Now it is. Maybe. First, Jones was going to...

Thanks to Ronald Reagan, the GOP took control of the upper house of Congress in 1980, only to lose it six years later. Now, with six Democrats and three Republicans...

Election Day is next week, and while some are predicting who will win and who will lose, the more significant prediction may be about who will vote. The prediction is:...

The Constitution and the calendar say there's an election coming up, but what is going on here isn't a political campaign as much as a primitive cultural rite. Fitting enough...

Bison can't read maps. So with winter's approach (it approaches early here) they've started wandering outside the park boundaries, where officials of the State of Montana shoot them, to the...

At first, cleaning up the air and water was easy. Most of the burden was on big companies or on cities, which usually got federal money to expand, improve or...

The Republicans took a gamble last week. With the polls and the experts predicting that they will do well in next month's elections without saying a word, they said something....