America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual.

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

Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.

Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.

The thing is, Obama is right that it would be a calamity for the government to default on its debt by not meeting its obligations. Such a thing has never happened and can't be allowed to happen.

I've worked as someone's deputy, and now it's time for me to run something. It's time for me to run my own shop.

It has never made any sense to argue that, unique among the people of the world, Arabs are more concerned on a day-to-day basis about the treatment of people they don't know than they are about how they're going to put food on their own tables, or whether their sons will ever find a job.