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

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

The Middle East Media Research Institute has spent decades detailing the diseased messages emanating from Palestinian TV and textbooks, instructing children in the glories of suicide terrorism against innocent Israelis.

Is victory sweet because your side wins - or is it really because the other side loses?

As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea.

Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.

The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.