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

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.

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

For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.

The war on terrorism was a bait and switch operation.

More and more, Democrats are starting to worry they that they have a more um, colorful version of Jimmy Carter on their hands. Obama acts cool as a proverbial cucumber but that awful '70s show seems frightfully close to a rerun.

The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue.