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.'

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

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.

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

Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant,' it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America's last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive.

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

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