There are times when American politics seems like little more than two groups in a fever to prevent each other from trespassing upon their respective soothing versions of unreality

The only reason investors haven't run screaming from an obviously corrupt financial marketplace is because the government has gone to such extraordinary lengths to sell the narrative that the problems of 2008 have been fixed.

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

Everything in America is so uniform. In Russia, everywhere you go is completely insane.

I didn't know Michael Hastings very well, but one thing about him was always obvious - he was born to be in the news business, he loved it, he was made for it. He wrote about Iraq and Afghanistan as places he had always been destined to visit.

At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.

America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements.