The Civil War was about a lot of things, but the core of it was slavery. That was the original sin.

The Civil War was about a lot of things, but the core of it was slavery. That was the original sin.

I believe careers should be judged independently unless there's a clear conflict of interest in a specific case.

One thing members of Congress need to realize is how much their reliance on staffers is hurting the institution and helping make it unaccountable.

There have been brilliant satires about the tax bureaucracy before, from the Beatles song ‘The Taxman’ to the film ‘Harry’s War,’ but in some ways Jim Greenfield’s The Taxman Cometh outdoes them all. His tale of a little guy who can’t take it anymore is both compelling and timely, given the tax scandals we read about in Washington almost every day.

I think the only way we retain credibility with the Arab world is to say, 'When push came to shove, despite the mistakes we made in the past, we are with you in democracy.'

The RNC was run so badly you could walk through their deepest competence and not get your ankles wet.