Liberals and conservatives disagree over what are the most important sins. For conservatives, the sins that matter are personal irresponsibility, the….

If you really want to change the Trump administration, you have to change the guy at the top. And that's not happening anytime soon. But, again, wher….

In the Trump language, words change their meaning day by day depending on his own political needs..

Nowhere else in the world do the laws on firearms become the playthings of politicians and lobbyists intent on manufacturing cultural conflict. Nowhe….

The money matters. And secret money is corrupting, secret money is dangerous, secret money leads to scandal..

Politically, Donald Trump doesn't seem to care much about what he says. He gauges the effect. Sometimes, in the middle of a speech, he will change hi….

At the heart of my argument is the view that religious faith, far from being inevitably on the side of the status quo, should on principle hold this ….

Forgive me for noting that conservatives seem to believe that the rich will work harder if we give them more, and the poor will work harder if we giv….

What's really striking here is that a candidate who ran as the Paladin of the working class who'd deliver them picks a guy who heads a fast-food comp….

I think Donald Trump simply needs to make himself look less bigoted, less dangerous, more comfortable to people..

The new culture war is about national identity rather than religion and 'transcendent authority.' It focuses on which groups the United States will f….

The New York Times had a headline on its website - Trump Turning To Ultra Wealthy To Steer Economic Policy. This doesn't sound very populist to me. T….

I wish we had more [Dwight] Eisenhower Republicans in this [Donald]Trump cabinet..

I think there are a lot of Americans who are very scared, scared that [Vladimir] Putin manipulated us, worried about Rex Tillerson, the winner of Rus….

Hope is different from optimism. Hope is a tough virtue, not a psychological predisposition. Hope insists on taking facts and reason into account and….

You have this all the way through this cabinet so that I think there are a lot of other things to worry about [Donald] Trump. But in conventional pol….

I actually think there are more Republicans than people realize who would be sympathetic to immigration reform in the rank and file. I think the less….

What is working in the economy is a natural comeback plus some effects of the policies we've been following. But I'm sort of worried about the long t….

Common decency is a core part of who people are..

The worst kind of job to have is a job with lots of responsibility and very little power..

A nation that hates politics will not long survive as a democracy..