America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago.

But particularly when the media profess to strive toward objectivity, gatekeepers play a crucial role in helping people navigate the news to make educated political decisions.

Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse than we had previously imagined.

I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the exquisitely engineered MacBook Air on which I typed this column.

Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republicans.

The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue.

Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady.

Americans get mad as hell with reasonable frequency but quickly return to their families and sitcoms.

The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore.

Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks.

The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.

If someone confronts you about draining them it could be a "double reverse." They are draining you and accuse you instead of draining them, just to throw you off.

I always return to Paris, taking my selves along - past self, customary self, the self I never had.

Private charity discourages poverty while public subsidies encourage it.

Ensuring a healthy future means investing in the generation who will carry that future.

You kids shouldn't play so rough . . . somebody's gonna start crying.

He who becomes a Prince through the favour of the people should always keep on good terms with them; which it is easy for him to do, since all they ask is not to be oppressed

It benefits all artists to help one another - it raises the whole profession.

My life, my joy, my food, my ail the world!