For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.

America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago.

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

As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.

Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality.

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience.