Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

The sad truth is that you can have peace processes all you like, but if one side is committed to war, then it's war.

I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.

In the Democratic primary in 2008, the Obama team devised a strategy to use the caucuses and a complicated system of awarding delegates in the state primaries to sneak up on Hillary Clinton and establish a lead Obama never surrendered.

Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.

By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class.

I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.