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Over the next decade, cities and states across America will be compelled to tighten their belts as the really big bills - the pension bills they cannot afford - come due. They'll have to go after existing contracts with current workers.

Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.

All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth.

The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.

The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate.

The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job.

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

She needs to seem tough, and whatever Hillary's weaknesses, tough is a pretty good word to describe her.

Obama's explanation for the slowdown in economic growth is that the public sector is hurting, and that's where Washington must step in and act.

Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.

Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs.

Obama is defining himself in a way that will destroy him.

Obama's victory in November 2008 was a historic political accomplishment.

Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.

Is victory sweet because your side wins - or is it really because the other side loses?

Let us now praise Barack Obama.

Newt Gingrich never received more than 100,000 votes in his life. He'll never be president.

I've worked as someone's deputy, and now it's time for me to run something. It's time for me to run my own shop.

I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.

I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.