Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians.

Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution.

I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.

The thing now is to seem concerned in a vaguely social-democratic way.

Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we also had an entire genre of journalism dedicated to brushing the problem off.

When done right - or wrong, depending on how you look at it - deficits remove liberal options from the table. Suddenly there's no money for building bridges or inspecting meat. Not surprisingly, running up a deficit is a strategy favored by the wrecking crew for its liberal-killing properties.

Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years.