The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it's changing the conversation.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Barack Obama seemed to think he could win over his enemies. He certainly seemed to believe too much in his own powers of persuasion. One thing's for sure - he misunderstood the nature of his adversaries.

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

Jon Stewart is a remarkable satirist and parodist in the vein of Mark Twain, because Jon Stewart understands what Mark Twain knew, which is that the truth goes down more easily in a democracy when it's marinated in humor.

We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out.

You can't have a people's democracy as long as corporations are considered people.