There is a lot in American politics (and in American life) that is angry, greedy, reckless and violent.

The perfect lover is one who turns into a pizza at 4:00 A.M.

In order to get big things done, sometimes, presidents have to be deft at moving the pea around under the shells.

As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it attacks the two things most central to a writer's craft - language and memory, which together make up an individual's identity. Alzheimer's makes a new character out of a familiar person.

Campaigns are no longer high-minded exchanges of ideas, even though God knows we need more good ones - ideas, that is.

We, The People is more than a statement of purpose. It is an acknowledgement of an obligation to each other.

The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow Martin Luther King Jr. to stand on a balcony without getting shot still maintains its power to awe and inspire.