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.

President Obama has lowered taxes more than he has raised them, and they are today lower than they were in President Reagan's time. But you don't hear conservatives crowing about that.

We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality.

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

Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq.

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

The war on terrorism was a bait and switch operation.