Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.

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.

Veteran print editors and reporters at places like the 'Times' and 'The New Yorker' manage to feed and clothe their families without costing their companies a million bucks a month, and they produce a great deal more valuable reporting and analysis than the network news stars do.

Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter.

If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary to use some sort of standard with which to judge their reliability. Perhaps the answer (strictly advisory) is a body of their peers. Perhaps not.

Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.

Liberals do not appear to address potential solutions with anything like the far right's aura of God-given self-confidence.