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

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.

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

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

Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse than we had previously imagined.

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.

Stylistically speaking, Barack Obama could hardly be further from Jimmy Carter if he really had been born in Kenya.