Liberals do not appear to address potential solutions with anything like the far right's aura of God-given self-confidence.

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.

In this lies Man's true freedom: in determination to worship only the God created by our own love of the good.

May all your days be filled with twinkles so bright that even in the darkest depths you shine brightly

Growing up she'd heard rumors about the enforcer and how badass he was...

There was no reason for a revolution in Paraguay.

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.

God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.

I don't want the kids to go through want I went through.

In the midst of darkness, light persists.

Come be the fire inside of me, come be the flame upon my heart. Come be the fire inside of me until You and I are one.

Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor; those who struggle are middle class.