Repeat a lie and it becomes truth.

A great lie is repeated as the cause of our current economic crisis, and it prevents us from dealing with reality.

In the current economic crisis, one of the favored explanations of our plight is the term "liar's loan." The term rolls...

Tip O'Neill said that, "All politics are local." He was correct, but a corollary is that, "All politics are also personal." A nice word, a human act, or a show of sympathy is likely to override policy differences or ideology. If you doubt me, take a look at longtime representatives...

Before Vietnam; before JFK, MLK and RFK went down; before we started beating up on one another; before we starting hating one another; before we all became cynics -- there was a moment when all seemed possible. At the time of the 1960 Democratic Convention, I was twelve years old....