The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while.

Of course the system can be changed. Why would I bother spending 14 years of my life blogging if I didn't believe that?

I think [Hillary] Clinton owes the press some thanks for going so far overboard on the emails and the Clinton Foundation over the past year.

Rising inequality is a cultural and economic cancer on a lot of different levels.

In other words, in the same way that mass incarceration surged because of a real thing, it's finally starting to ebb because of a real thing: the actual, concrete decline in violent crime that started in the early 90s and which appears to be permanent. America is simply a safer place than it used to be, and looks set to stay that way.

I read quite a few complaints last night about Lester Holt’s choice of debate topics. Liberals wanted to know why climate change didn’t come up. Conservatives thought there should have been a question about abortion.

On the Medicare side, they limited their cuts to far in the future, and to providers.