For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both.

For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both.

As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight.

Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.

I think Hillary Clinton's a very clever politician but she would be too easy to stereotype the way John Kerry was.

When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit.

The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act bored and above-it-all.