Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter.

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.

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

Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment.

Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter.

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

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