You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press, much of it openly hostile to the parties in power.

Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed.

She needs to seem tough, and whatever Hillary's weaknesses, tough is a pretty good word to describe her.

I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.

You'd think experienced political professionals would know better than to place their trust in exit polls, notoriously inaccurate surveys that had John Kerry winning the 2004 election by five points when he actually lost by three.

The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.