On the other hand, I think that Governor Romney has to worry that his turnout is going to be low, that he is not going to bring out the evangelicals, that he is not going to bring out the Tea Party stalwarts. If he does not, then it's pretty clear that he will lose the election. So I think turnout in key groups is going to be really, really key on Election Day.

It's what the Taliban does in Afghanistan, it's what gets done in the Middle East, and it's clearly something that certain mainly conservative groups in the United States would like to do. They miss the good old days, when men were men and women were nothing.

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

I think we now know the limits also of intelligence and rhetoric.

People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently.

part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition.

That's what makes life so hard for women, that instead of thinking that this is the way things are, we always think it's the way we are.