Geoffrey Norman

April 2019

Degrees of Difficulty

Paying for College Forever… The New School of Hard Knocks By Geoffrey Norman The show is called Paid Off and it follows in the tradition of such television classics as Queen for a Day and Family Feud. That is to say, it makes the woes of other...

Geoffrey Norman

November 2018

But My Pension!

That Was a Promise! Sorry, there is no money to pay it. By Geoffrey Norman In September, Rahm Emanuel surprised the political cognoscenti when he announced that he would not be running for re-election as mayor of Chicago, where it had been...

Geoffrey Norman

June 2018

Here to Stay: Heroin

It was the kind of story that, five years ago, would have made you sit up and take notice. “Good Lord,” you might have thought. “Unbelievable.”

Geoffrey Norman