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

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

Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some frequency - without ever reaching anything approaching consensus.

The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore.

American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be.

To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.