Click here to read Margo Howard’s assessment of the opening statements in the Blagojevich trial and here to read about the craziness that occurred during the first round of closing statements. Click ...

Click here to read Margo Howard’s first dispatch from the Blagojevich trial. Click here to read her second. A note about Mrs. Blagojevich and the bathroom, and Mrs. B. and the courtroom. I encountered ...

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It's an ill wind that blows no good, even in Chicago in November. Take Skittles Blagojevich, a small white dog — could be a bichon frise, maybe a Maltese — who joined the family shortly after Governor ...

You might think that the spectacle of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s impeachment and media self-justification tour could not get more surreal. But that would underestimate The View, which began its ...

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In tapes played for the jury last week at the Blago trial, the ex-gov was heard telling aides that if both Attorney General Lisa Madigan and Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. were drowning, and he could only ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. After yesterday’s federal court hearing in which Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff John Harris heard ...

The question isn’t who, or what, but why. Why is Rod Blagojevich? Why does our most recent disgraced ex-governor continue to make improbably interesting television, as evidenced by Hulu’s four-part ...

It is somehow perfect that Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich would begin his media self-justification-and-jury-pool-influence tour at the same time that American Idol has returned to TV. Like the bad ...