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

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

Veteran print editors and reporters at places like the 'Times' and 'The New Yorker' manage to feed and clothe their families without costing their companies a million bucks a month, and they produce a great deal more valuable reporting and analysis than the network news stars do.

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.

Apple is a wonderful company for its customers and investors. So, too, Pixar. (NeXT, not so much...) But Apple is also an engine of misery for its subcontracted Chinese workers.

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

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