Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some fre….

The word liberal has been employed as the political equivalent of an untreatable but potentially containable social disease -- the kind that could be….

Trends in circulation and advertising - the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and unresponsive; the advent of Craigs….

Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising..

If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary to use some so….

By the accusation of liberal bias ... the institutions that conservatives revere - the military, corporate America, organized religion, and the power….

Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse th….

History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse..

The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair s….

I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the exquisitely engineered MacBook Air on which I typed thi….

Veteran print editors and reporters at places like the 'Times' and 'The New Yorker' manage to feed and clothe their families without costing their co….

Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back ….

If liberalism has grown so weak and ineffective, why does it evoke such alarm on the part of conservatives? It turns out that while liberals are weak….

Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spr….

Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to their fam….

To become informed and hold government accountable, the general public needs to obtain news that is comprehensive yet interesting and understandable,….

As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ig….

Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republi….

America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago..

The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of ….

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do..