Maybe one thing that has happened is that the claims of non-partisanship of the mainstream media have been a little bit exploded. Mostly I'd say what, if anything has caused the change, are just the obvious technological changes - proliferation of easier access to getting your opinions out and the proliferation of media.

Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single Democratic primary. I’ll predict that right now.

People read the Tribune or the Sun-Times, you know, way back when the Tribune was a right-wing paper.It's always been somewhat that way. We take 10, 20 years in the 50s and 60s as kind of the norm, when there was this sort of bi-partisan parent consensus.

I think there was a moment in the middle part of the century into the 60s, 70s when at least elite journalism claimed to be non-partisan. You can go back and look at it and wonder about how non-partisan it was.

Going from three TV channels to broadcast TV to cable to talk radio; obviously the online explosion has changed things.

These soldiers deserve a better defense secretary than the one we have.

Whenever I hear anything described as a heartless assault on our children, I tend to think it’s a good idea.