Even in as chaotic and random a world as we live in now, Americans have come to rely on a few rock-solid inevitabilities during the Christmas/New Year...
The idea that the American Dream still exists and that everyone can "make it" like Ted Williams is, by all objective economic measures, demonstrably false.
If there's one thing you can still count on from today's increasingly erratic politics, it is pure unadulterated paradox. One could say the Washington circus features as many morons as oxymorons.
I've just finished up three hours of the most difficult radio I've ever had to do. The topic, of course, was the horrific shooting in Tucson, which ha...
Since the shooting in Tucson on Saturday, lots of important questions have been raised - questions that go to issues than transcend even the monumenta...
In years past, we've learned that Democrats are happy to rely on union workers' hard-earned money to get elected, and then happy to block major pieces of legislation that would help workers join a union.
"There is a need for some reflection here: What is too far now? What was too far when Oklahoma City happened is accepted now. There's been a desensiti...
Regardless of motive, you simply cannot say you want to honor Martin Luther King while also using his holiday as an occasion to oppose the very cause he was advocating at the very moment of his death.
No, it isn't about getting tough on trade and currency manipulation. And no, it isn't about anything to do with human rights or the environment.
What passes for a "national" media these days is almost exclusively New York/D.C.-based media that focuses almost exclusively on New York/D.C.-centric stories.
Republican congresspeople are keeping their taxpayer subsidized health insurance while voting to deny it to other Americans. Because, you know, government health care is great for Republican politicians, but too lavish for the Rest of Us.
Emanuel is banking on the elitism embedded in our politics to vault him to the top job in the Windy City -- the kind that says laws apply only when they help the rich and powerful.
I'm about seven weeks away from the launch of my third book, which is entitled BACK TO OUR FUTURE: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live In Now.. Th...
