Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.

We're now in one of those periods when the reality of intense pressure on the middle class diverges from long-held assumptions of how the American bargain should work

It is not widely known that, ever since the end of the Korean War, the United States has spent essentially the same amount of money on defense, in real terms, every single year.

A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.

No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job.

Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world.

Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.