Because we don't know that much about what has happened before, it's useful. But either we will recover and progress, or the alternative is that it's….

TED was simply wonderful, an intellectual spa, a 21st-century Chataqua, superb and singular..

If partisanship makes us abandon intellectual honesty, if we oppose what our opponents say or do simply because they are the ones saying or doing it,….

I'm comparing Americans to international peers in terms of GDP, educational system - the sort of benchmarks we used to designate a so-called develope….

I am proud to be American. We wouldn't have our big dreams without this quality, but if we can't agree on the shape of reality, when a White House, o….

Maybe the reality-based fractions of red and blue America are reaching a sort of consensus: Just as Republicans are beginning to get why George Bush ….