There are people who are trying to advance themselves by wrapping themselves in Reagan..

If we went back to the imprisonment rate we had in the early '70s, something like four out of five people employed in the prison industry would lose ….

I have criticisms of Ronald Reagan, but he lives in another universe from the kind of political theater that is represented by people, like Sarah Pal….

What was happening was the war on drugs. That was the primary culprit I could see that was getting in the way of black progress..

Like most Americans, I live in the line of fire of a shooting match that is going on over Reagan's legacy. It's between shrill and extremist voices w….

It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history..

You can't have a discussion about politics without mentioning Ronald Reagan..

Ronald Reagan, whatever his pros and cons were, was a public servant in the end..

I don't think Reagan is primarily funny, and I don't think he's primarily marvelous; he's complicated..

It was widespread that the politics of Tea Party people would be foreign to Ronald Reagan and they would be seen by him as frivolous and uninformed..

It was natural to see the struggle for dignity for black people in America as a sister struggle of the Jewish struggle. So growing up, it was always ….

The whole idea of a democracy is that we ourselves, the people, are supposed to make a path of our politics, and it is we who with our feet and our v….

Ronald Reagan had many fine qualities and he had many shortcomings. He's not the simple, folksy figure that he's often portrayed as..

Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression by the elit….

Reagan has very significant things to teach us - positive lessons and quite negative lessons..

Ron Reagan amazingly qualifies as an honest broker. I asked him if he was a mamas boy and he said no, more of a papas boy. At the same time he was wi….

As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and my mother's family had ….

Reagan is held up to us as an example of never raising taxes. Correction: Reagan raised taxes six of his eight years as president. Why? He was a prag….

I mean, like a lot of kids growing up in the early seventies, I was fed Dr. Kissinger with my Fruit Loops. He was the Dr. Ruth of American foreign po….

We come out of Jewish-refugee, Holocaust stock, which means that our predecessors fled and we learned that systems of power are vulnerable to corrupt….

If you watch the evening news, Dr. Kissinger is very often brought on to sort of be the statesman of his age and to reflect dispassionately on world ….