It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists.

In the Tea Party narrative, victory at the polls means a new American revolution, one that will "take our country back" from everyone they disapprove of. But what they dont realize is, there's a catch: This is America, and we have an entrenched oligarchical system in place that insulates us all from any meaningful political change.

Why is JP Morgan getting so much heat? Maybe because it is a massive international crime syndicate.

For a country founded on the idea that rights are inalienable and inherent from birth, we’ve developed a high tolerance for conditional rights and conditional citizenship.

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

The print magazine and print journalism industry is obviously in a great deal of trouble, and one of the things that happened when this business started to give way to the Internet and to broadcast television is that a lot of organizations started cutting specifically investigative journalism and they also started cutting fact-checkers.

Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.