One way in which Americans have always been exceptional has been in our support for education. First we took the lead in universal primary education; then the “high school movement” made us the first nation to embrace widespread secondary education.

There are no atheists in foxholes and there are no libertarians in financial crises.

I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.

In our country, learned ignorance is on the rise.

I think Stockman is an interesting sort of amalgam.

I predict that in the years ahead Enron, not Sept. 11, will come to be seen as the greater turning point in U.S. society.

Middle-class societies don't emerge automatically as an economy matures, they have to be CREATED through political action.