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

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

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

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.'

Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady.

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

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