Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad..

This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man….

Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time, the number of people direc….

In small towns, bored teenagers turn their eyes longingly to the exciting doings in the big cities, pining for urban amenities like hipster bars and ….

As you watch the world crumble, try taking your Armageddon with this sprinkling of irony: Over the last three decades, business has got virtually eve….

They, the conservatives, are the real outsides, they tell us, gazing with disgust upon the ludicrous manners of the high and mighty. Or, they tell us….

Thanks to a deal finalized in 2008, Chicago’s parking meters will be operated for the next 75 years by a group of investors put together by Morgan St….

When money is exchanged for pregnancy, some believe, surrogacy comes close to organ-selling, or even baby-selling..

Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days ….

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate..

Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries; yes, they have won the dispute that private health insurance is….

The only truly individualistic health-care choice - where you receive care that is unpolluted by anyone else’s funds - is to forgo insurance altogeth….

Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn't have - until recently - were proper instruments for inc….

[The right] may never bring prayer back to schools, but it has rescued all manner of rightwing economic nostrums from history's dustbins. Having roll….

We have become a society that can't self-correct, that can't address its obvious problems, that can't pull out of its nosedive. And so to our list of….

When the entertainers of the right aren’t declaring their disgust with President Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, they’re pretending to….

There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery’s version of the Barack Obama “Hope” poster previously belon….

If your purpose is to understand the clique of people who dominate Washington today, the emails that really matter are the ones being slowly released….

Mounting a campaign against plutocracy makes as much sense to the typical Washington liberal as would circulating a petition against gravity. What ou….

When done right - or wrong, depending on how you look at it - deficits remove liberal options from the table. Suddenly there's no money for building ….

People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about..