Timothy J. McNulty

In last week's column, I defended the Tribune for publishing a commentary by syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker about "full-blooded Americans." I argued that though the opinion article used code words...

Race always percolates just below the surface of American politics, but in this election year it is bubbling up more and more. Syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker wrote on this page...

This is an old sportswriters rule: No cheering in the press box. Expect to see that rule broken whenever Tribune Co. sells the Chicago Cubs. Ever since the parent company...

The political horse race analogy went too far. The lead editorial "No photo finish for Clinton" in Thursday's Tribune played off Hillary Clinton's loss in the North Carolina primary and...

Most people know that R. Kelly's pending criminal case is finally coming to trial. For months prosecutors and his lawyers have been arguing pre-trial motions -- but we can only...

On a Beirut street corner many years ago, I looked over the smoking remains of a car bombing. Two grade-school boys came up and asked how many died. I recall...

The first person to mention the cougar story was mystified that editors didn't display a large photo of the dead animal at the very top of the front page. The...

Unlike Academy Award winners, no one at the luncheon honoring Pulitzer Prize winners asks "Who are you wearing?" Another unlikely question is "How much did that story gross?" For all...

A comic strip and two satiric columns raised questions about what is appropriate for the Tribune to publish. In the first case, a Brenda Starr comic used the word "threesome"...

In this "three-plus-Bill" presidential campaign, the perception of political imbalance and unfairness gets tricky to sort out. Republican supporters of John McCain feel he is getting short shrift while Hillary...