I think liberals should accept that if we want big programs that significantly reduce inequality - and we should - it's going to require higher taxes on everyone. The rich can certainly do more, especially given their stupendous income increases since the Reagan era, but they can't do it all.

Donald Trump says he's going to change the no-guns policy at his resorts. I can't wait to see that.

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.

Ben Carson says his flat tax will be around 15 percent. And by God, if he ever shows you the details, you'll see how awesome and deficit-killing it is.

Black crime rates fell more steeply than white crime rates, and now black incarceration is falling more steeply than white incarceration.

I'd like to see college debt levels drop by a lot, but I'm not quite sure what the best way to do that is.

If I could snap my fingers and import France's health care system today, I'd do it.