The worst thing that can happen to us in an ideological struggle is to become what we are fighting.

As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other.

Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might have to endure.

The worst thing that can happen to us in an ideological struggle is to become what we are fighting.

It is statesmanlike for the administration and Congress to look to our nation's welfare beyond their terms in office.

Social Security is at last on the nation's front burner.

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.