The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history.

When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.

If you remove the fear of criminal punishment for the nation's political and financial elites - as we have done - what possible constraint on their behavior does anyone think will remain?

You can't have a pristine house with ten dogs, and I'd rather have the ten dogs.

The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact, or treats elected officials with a reverence reserved for royalty, cannot be accurately described as engaged in any other function.

The fact that war is the word we use for almost everything—on terrorism, drugs, even poverty—has certainly helped to desensitize us to its invocation; if we wage wars on everything, how bad can they be?

American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.