Not being optimistic falls a long way short of predicting that all is finished.

It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open.

The desire for hope and change is easily understandable. In many ways it's even more dramatic in Europe.

The childcare tax credit makes some sense.

If you want to talk about distributing substances that are lethal, . . . let's be serious. Tobacco is far ahead of anything else. Alcohol is second.

One of the real problems of society is that its far too atomized, what sociologists call secondary associations.

You can't get votes that way. So [the Republicans] have been compelled to mobilize a base of voters and gone to elements of the country that have always been there but were kind of marginal to the political system, for example, religious extremists.