In America, it takes about two weeks in the limelight for the whole country to think you've been around for years.

Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.

George Bush and John Ashcroft were religious in a scary way, but the rational among us could always take heart that, deep down, the Bush administration was more cynical than messianic.

I try to be outraged by things that other people are just very accepting of, as though they're normal and can't be changed. A lot of what I write about is, "Hey, you know, this stuff is really awful, and it doesn't need to be, and that's why it's so offensive." Things should be better.

Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way.

In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing; you've always got a puncher's chance.

An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.