In 2013, there were 6,261 black homicide victims in the US — almost all killed by black civilians.

The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.

Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications.

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

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.

For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon.

Obama's coalition would have consigned him to the political margins as little as 12 years ago, but the nation's demographic changes are moving far more quickly than most Republicans anticipated.