The only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ideas, making the bills merely bad, not d….

Almost no one under 60 remembers what fundraising was like before Watergate. Until the 1970s, campaign money was collected by "bagmen," familiar char….

If Franz Kafka were alive today he'd be writing about customer service..

The price of loyalty is incompetence..

Unless the digital divide is narrowed soon, the United States may be headed to the class warfare of a century ago, the last time the economy changed ….

They say that 'history is an argument without end.' In Thompson's skillful hands, this momentous argument between two old friends on the most critica….

It sometimes takes a while for executives to figure out that the reporters they think of as little bugs to be squashed or spun can be more powerful t….

Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate..

In the press grandstand where I watched Discovery rise against the cloudless sky, the media hit the abort button on cynicism. The Earth shook to the ….

The basic problem is with the business model of journalism. That business model is premised on the idea that talk is cheap and reporting is expensive..

By laying the groundwork for a system centered on home ownership rather than the public housing popular in Europe, the New Deal made possible the gre….

Every patient reacts a little differently, both biologically and psychologically. The only constant in cancer is inconstancy; the only certainty is a….

Obama was willing to compromise and Republicans were not. That's not a biased statement. One of my problems with the limitations of journalism is tha….

With his ABC News experience, perhaps Pierre Salinger's next job could be cohosting-with Oliver Stone-a 24-hour Conspiracy Network..

Millions of Americans would still despair in the eight long years of the Depression that lay ahead and many of their individual dreams would be dashe….

I think it's a terrible system, but money in politics is like water running downhill -- it finds its way..

The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics.

If it's easy for the government to learn about us, it should be easier for us to learn about the government..

The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't..