Jonathan Miller

I've never been so devastated by the defeat of a conservative Republican to the U.S. Senate as I was this Tuesday.

It's not just that Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning is a great guy: a warm, humble, often hilarious teddy bear of a man who's the type of person...

One year ago today, in my inaugural column for The Huffington Post, I came out of the closet for marriage equality, and encouraged the President to do the same.

While I'm not presumptuous enough to think that my column made any difference (I am a recovering politician, after all),...

An uninformed visitor to my old Kentucky home this week might conclude that they'd mistakenly walked onto the compound of a Prozac-fueled utopian cult.

An odd but euphoric delirium had descended upon the hills, hollers and hamlets of the Bluegrass State.  Men and women walking more upright, a bounce in their steps, a...

Last week, I received a very warm reception from my hometown's Tea Party organization.

Yes, you read that correctly...

My regular readers know that I am an unabashed, gay-marriage-embracing, pro-choice-supporting, clean-energy-promoting, immigration-reforming, economic-inequality-battling, church-and-state-separating LIBERAL.

And yet, I repeat (for my friends that may have fainted upon reading...

A few months ago at this site, out of a growing concern that a small but vocal segment of American progressives were making common cause with virulent anti-Zionists, I laid out "The Liberal Case for Israel."

In my column, I argued that Israel's extraordinarily progressive record on a wide range...

A thousand days.

In our gazelle-paced, über-networked society, so many remarkable, epochal events have taken place during the last thousand days:

Both the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street emerged as powerful rebuttals to the status quo in American politics...

The Arab Spring ushered in a domino effect that toppled...

It was one of those awkward, seemingly-endless moments that elicited pained winces from both secular liberals and those of us who believe that prayer is a sacred communication with God.

Rev. Hershael York stepped up to the Speaker's lectern, before a televised joint session of the Kentucky General Assembly, purportedly...

In my first full year as a recovering politician, I've capitalized on my newfound freedom to speak on the issues of the day without the restrictions of the typical partisan and special-interest handcuffs.  Best of all, I've finally been liberated to address -- with detail, nuance, and unadulterated candor...

While a recent Gallup poll revealed that a majority of Americans support legalizing marijuana, and Ron Paul -- a proponent -- has run well in the early GOP presidential primaries, most mainstream politicians still refuse to touch the subject, and many journalists continue to refer to legalization as a "radical" position.

It's no...

The Last American Jew.

It was an alarming image for a Jewish adolescent.

Yet, in the 1980s, it was a common theme of our temple youth group gatherings.

Jewish teens in Generation X were admonished regularly about demographic trends and intermarriage rates that suggested our community could soon splinter into...

Even in this winter of our political discontent and disunity, Americans are passionately united behind a simple idea:

We're fed up with politics.

And we want our government to work again.

That's why as part of my second act as a recovering politician, I helped to co-found No...

The Palestinian flag at a gay rights rally?

It's the iconic ironic image of the New New Left.

The sentiment's familiar: a maltreated minority identifying with the victim célèbre of radical academia.

But the juxtaposition of these two particular causes would be absurdly hilarious if it weren't profoundly tragic: The Hamas regime...

JERUSALEM: My people -- the Jewish people -- have the reputation of being both opinionated and cantankerous. Israel's founding father, David Ben-Gurion, once remarked that "for every two Jews, there are three opinions." When his successor as Prime Minister, Golda Meir, was confronted by President Lyndon Johnson -- who...

Since its spontaneous generation a few months ago, Occupy Wall Street has made me cautiously optimistic.

"Optimistic" because I'm thrilled that there's finally a highly visible effort to shine a spotlight on one of our country's worst modern tragedies:  the cancerous spread and increasing metastasization of income inequality.

"Cautious" because...

David Williams, Kentucky's GOP nominee for governor, may have finally found the elusive political silver bullet.

With Kentucky's gubernatorial election only days away, his Keystone-Cops, revolving-door campaign team flailing, most recent polls showing him running around 30 points behind the incumbent Governor Steve Beshear, and even former partisan...

As the proud papa of two extraordinary teenage girls, I know that there is nothing more unshakable, pure, and enduring than a father's love for his daughter.  Where that unqualified adoration extends to her husband as well, I imagine that such a family is truly blessed.

But as the Kentucky...

New Year's Resolutions? 

In October?

If you're confused, then you are looking at the wrong calendar.

According to the Hebrew Calendar, today is the sixth full day of Jewish New Year.

On Sept. 29, Jews all over the world commemorated Rosh Hashanah ("head of the year"). On this High Holy Day, we...

As I gaze out my airplane's window, across the runway of Munich's International Airport, I flash back to my childhood, and am reminded of what truly is at stake today for my ancestral homeland of Israel.

Early memories can leave indelible marks.  My teenage daughters, and many of their...

Recently, a close friend and early political supporter of mine confided that she would no longer contribute to political campaigns that engaged in negative advertising.

And really, who could blame her?

Every election season, the television airwaves are barraged by a seemingly endless succession of 30-second jeremiads that manipulate the...

If you needed yet another reason to hate politics...

A political firestorm erupted in the tiny rural hamlet of Fancy Farm, Kentucky, last weekend when a scandalous speech delivered by Governor Steve Beshear received universal approbation from political insiders and the capital press corps.

One wag opined that the...