Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.'

So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so.

The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue.

Americans get mad as hell with reasonable frequency but quickly return to their families and sitcoms.

History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse.

Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.