It gives me no pleasure to ask this, but who still reads Doonesbury?

Do you? When did you stop?

Does the strip, which is said to be running in around 1500 newspapers, still matter?

It used to be essential. In its golden age beginning in the...

The YouTube clip of Susan Boyle, the overnight singing sensation from the U.K., hit my office last week and everyone gathered around the only computer with speakers to watch what is by now the world's most popular ugly duckling story.

But not me. I continued reading the Huffington...

I used to like Michael Kinsley. But I guess he is well and truly fully Microsofted now, as evidenced by his op-ed in the Washington Post on why it's OK for big newspapers to go out of business.

This topic has been getting a great...

Following the news that the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has stopped publishing a print edition to become a publication that, as the Washington Post reported "will resemble a local Huffington Post," (which itself followed similar news from the Christian Science Monitor, the Rocky Mountain News and the Washington Times--oops, sorry, that...

It's hard not to notice the seismic shift that's taking place in the modern business meeting. There have been similar paradigm-shifters, like Powerpoint and expanding the business day to include breakfast, but this one's a doozy.

When everyone at a meeting has an iPhone, Blackberry or laptop, a critical mass...

In 1938, E.B. White wrote an essay entitled "Irtnog," a cautionary tale that should be a lesson to the texters and Twitterers of today--that is, if anyone paid attention to cautionary tales anymore.

"Along about 1920," White wrote, "it became apparent that more things were being written than people had...

Following the withdrawal of New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg from consideration to be Secretary of Commerce, which followed the withdrawal of New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson's withdrawal from consideration to be Secretary of Commerce, which followed Chicago billionaire Penny Pritzker's withdrawal from consideration to be Secretary of Commerce, President...

Observed on a Washington, D.C. bus: this ad from the outgoing Department of Education, promoting the value of a college degree. I'm going to college be a proofreader.

President Barack Obama was sworn into office a third time today, and the White House announced plans to repeat the swearing-in on a daily basis.

"We feel it's a good way to start the day," Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said. "Like a meditation, prayer, or exercise routine it focuses the...

It took 10 weeks for the House Judiciary Committee to vote to impeach Richard Nixon, and decades later, seven weeks for Bill Clinton.

But it took the Illinois House just three weeks (with time off for Christmas and New Year's) to vote out articles of impeachment for Gov. Rod...

It's hard being a New York Times reader these days. Old-school readers (like me) were shocked Monday morning to see a display ad for CBS running across the bottom of the front page. The Times itself reported it as "a move regarded by traditionalists as a commercial incursion into...

A recording of a key meeting between Barack Obama, David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel and Robert Gibbs was recently revealed. Most of the conversation revolves around the selection of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State.

Barack Obama: Kerry? I couldn't stand having Kerry.

David Axelrod: Don't worry, it's not Kerry.

Flush from the success of their mostly news-free coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign, the major news networks have directed anchors and correspondents to refrain from traditional news reporting and focus on what they do best -- glitz, opinion, "happy talk," sarcasm and stating the obvious.

"Newspapers are dying and...

Mea culpa mea maxima culpa! Last week, I wrote this HuffPost post about all the good reasons I thought Rahm Emanuel should not take the job of White House Chief of Staff. Actually, there was only one reason -- it would mean giving up on his goal of...

In what observers say is the shortest "honeymoon" between the public and a new Administration, dissatisfaction with the Obama Administration began before it was even elected. Twenty-four hours before polls opened, 62% of the electorate said they "hadn't seen any results" from the Obama Administration and 74% said they were...

When I first met Rahm Emanuel, he was a dancer. He also worked at the campus pub, where as I recall he made a pretty decent cheeseburger.

We were both students at Sarah Lawrence College in the mid 1970s, where we each took political science courses and dabbled...

In dramatic testimony today, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan acknowledged that he had caused the current financial meltdown.

"I messed up," the venerable sage told Congress. "Oops."

Greenspan, who is married to the also venerable (but strangely youthful looking) Andrea Mitchell, said that "a bunch of rich guys"...

I predict a fascinating story in the Washington Post foreshadows Barack Obama's choice as Secretary of State.  Coming on the same day the paper endorsed Obama, this bit of hagiography contains a description of how Obama deferred to Richard Nixon's Favorite Mayor (look it up) on...

Senator Barack Obama, whose "politics of hope" has put him within reach of the presidency, announced a stunning new strategy for the final weeks of campaigning.

With a veto-proof majority within reach in the Senate, and a 100-plus margin possible in the House, party leaders are focusing on what one...

All day I've been accepting congratulations (well, mostly from myself) about my eerie prediction about Sarah Palin's performance in the debate. On the Monday before the debate on Wednesday, I wrote of Gov. Palin's surprising proficiency in foreign and domestic policy.

"Gov. Palin's surprising performance," I wrote, "began...