Today, too many would-be movement leaders simply want to be Dr. King or Mrs. Rosa Parks: they want the glory and privilege of leadership without the burdens or sacrifice and sustained hard work. Movements are not built from the top down by powerful leaders but percolate from the bottom up from people who share common grievances.

Paul's oft times uttered quip that private business owners have an absolute right to decide what to do with their own property; to make his point that it is legally wrong to tell private business owners what they can do with their business is laughable.

Paul represents not a new libertarian age, but old-fashioned American federalism -- the belief that sovereign state governments should have free rein within their borders, free from pesky federal intervention and regulation.

Not long ago, a passing familiarity with Bible verses, a flair for rhetoric, and hunger for a following could be enough to land someone in a small-tow...

Obama was written off as a loser by his own team simply because he could not change 50 years of social inertia in his first year in office.

The news hit last December that there was a racially inflammatory picture of the lynching of a black man next to a smiling cherubic picture of three y...

Rand's bizarre civil rights stand this week illustrates just how loony this Tea Party movement is and how politically dangerous its candidates will be.

If Rand and company have to reach back nearly half a century and dredge up a monumental piece of legislation that totally remade the racial map in America to fire up the faithful, then so be it.

Lyndon Johnson understood that legislative majorities are fundamentally impermanent, and that political capital should be spent rather than dissipated. Obama should take a page from his book.

Health care costs are rising fast and are the largest cause of personal bankruptcies. Our life expectancy is lower than most industrialized countries, but our health care costs more than any of them.

What bothers me about the New Haven case isn't that somebody might get treated unfairly, although that's a serious concern, of course. It's the sad fact that no black firemen passed the test.

We should view the California court not as opposing gay marriage, but rather as promoting public deliberation and democratic action on the subject of equal rights.

For too long, federalism, the Madisonian concept of shared power between state and federal government, has been an idea monopolized by conservatives.