It's also one thing to see a celebrity or some kind of character on a TV show being gay. It's a totally different thing when you know your husband... not your husband, but your brother or your friend or the dude you hung out in high school was gay. I mean, that is what changes people's minds, what changes people's minds.

The New York Times had not become The New York Times overnight. It had to earn its reputation day-by-day.

If you are a gay couple living in Alabama, you know one thing: your family has no standing under the law; and it can and will be violated by strangers.

The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.

Bush has legitimized a huge expansion of the welfare state, liberalizing immigration, and using force for democratization abroad. All the next Democratic president has to do to finish Bush's hard work is to raise taxes to pay for it all.

Anything that raises any internal honesty about gay life is inherently suspect.

We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up.