But I think what we're coming to grips with is the fact that we actually have a mercenary Army, and it doesn't have a nice ring to it. We call it 'volunteers', but we're basically paying people to serve their country. And if you're going to pay people and have a mercenary Army, you're going to have to pay the market rate. And so the bounties are going up—more money for tuition, higher enlistment bonuses—and I think it's appropriate.

If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.

The dirty little secret is Donald Trump's views are not all that different from the rest of the Republicans in the field. Nobody in the Republican field supports a path to citizenship. They're all pretty tough on immigration.

Today's young women don't really see inequities until they go out into the real world.

If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.

The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.

You could say that Trump is the 21st century version of Pat Buchanan. Protectionist, anti-immigrant.