Democratic institutions, even in the oldest operating democracy in the world, are anything but perfect.

You are losing out because Mexican rapists are taking your job.

Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what's more, the population will hardly protest the extinction.

Maybe Santa Claus is real. Here's the problem: reality.

100% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying.100

A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.

There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.