If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I've got a problem, I should take their advice. And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn't take their advice.

I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.

I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. 'It's a job, Al,' Guy told me. 'We work at it every day.'

Net neutrality isn't a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.

I'm for Israel's right to exist.

Liberals don't hate America. We love America more than Ann Coulter does. I love it enough to engage my readers honestly.

Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.