What Republicans have actually put on the table is almost nothing. All of the rest is just big talk. So how is the president supposed to negotiate with people who say, 'Here's my demands. By the way, I can't give you any specifics. Just make me happy'?

The important thing to understand is that the case for pollution control isn't based on some kind of aesthetic distaste for industrial society. Pollution does real, measurable damage, especially to human health.

The party of ideas has become the party of Beavis and Butthead.

For most Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport.

The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century ... has taken place via globalization.

As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for.

I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.