The Republicans have increased their power by advocating for lowering the deficit, lowering taxes and, ostensibly, increasing jobs. But there is no way they can deliver all three. They can't even deliver two of the three. Here's why:

1. Lowering taxes will increase the deficit. There is no way around...

Can anything get done now? Not unless Obama understands how his omissions and strategies contributed to this and changes. Unhappily, I see no evidence of that so far. But we shall see.

The manipulation of the public's anger was uncontested by Obama. He played the inside game and left the...

Whatever the truth may be about the Pope's culpability in the widening scandal of sexual assaults on children that is rapidly enveloping the Catholic Church, several things are by now clear:

There has been a worldwide epidemic of sexual assaults on children by priests -- not an isolated incident or...

Can the President of the United States override any domestic law as well as any international law as a consequence of his war powers under the Constitution? Can he wiretap without a warrant despite the Fourth Amendment and federal statutes that prohibit such a practice? Can he snatch people off...

The recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission has been greeted with screaming dismay by most liberals. Many of them mistake the decision for doing things it did not do: for example, one hyperbolic letter to The New York Times...

This is a story about a double crucifixion happening on the very day that hundreds of millions of Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus. It happened yesterday, too, and it will happen tomorrow, unless people of good will and moral decency rise up and stand against it.

The story...

Socialism has now come openly and explicitly to America. And it has come
to save free market capitalism.

What else can one call it when the government takes over entire huge
private sector entities for the good of society; when many hundreds of billions
of taxpayer dollars...

William F. Buckley, Jr., conservative intellectual -- and supporter of drug policy reform -- passed away February 27, 2008. He is remembered by Ira Glasser, president of the Drug Policy Alliance's board and former executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union:

It was sometime in the eighties. I had...

Over the past several years, there has been increasing controversy within the ACLU over alleged breaches of principle and cover-ups by Anthony Romero,the Executive Director. There have also been charges by a number of Board members that the Board, and particularly its leadership, has failed to confront its problem and...