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

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

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.

The Mayans were right, as it turns out, when they predicted the world would end in 2012. It was just a select world: the G.O.P. universe of arrogant, uptight, entitled, bossy, retrogressive white guys. [...] Instead of smallpox, plagues, drought and Conquistadors, the Republican decline will be traced to a stubborn refusal to adapt to a world where poor people and sick people and black people and brown people and female people and gay people count.

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