A person's character is what it is. It's a little like a marriage - only without the option of divorce. You can work on it and try to make it better,….

I can't agree that what we're seeing is a matter of the American bourgeoisie confronting workers everywhere. It's more like the international plutocr….

A "communist/socialist/progressive" is an oxymoron, like an "atheist/evangelical Christian/Muslim.".

Unfair in practice is not the same thing as wrong in principle, but sometimes it has to do..

[If the Democratic nominee turns out to be] Walter Mondale, I hope he picks Representative Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. It would be a despe….

Where is it written that if you don't like religion you are somehow disqualified from being a legitimate American? What was Mark Twain, a Russian?.

The dismaying truth is that birtherism is part of a larger pattern of rejection of reality that has taken hold of intimidating segments of one of the….

It’s a strange sort of attack, to be sure: a wonderfully pacific attack, a supportive attack, an attack without the slightest intention or capacity t….

A political ideology is a very handy thing to have. It's a real time-saver, because it tells you what you think about things you know nothing about..

The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate..

I`m pretty sure there is no such thing as God..

I don't think that the "freedom movement" is a racist movement as such. But it's a virulent example of identity politics. "Whiteness" is part of the ….

Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender..