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

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.

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

Liberals do not appear to address potential solutions with anything like the far right's aura of God-given self-confidence.

Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse than we had previously imagined.