The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.
As a parent and a citizen I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over...
We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and...
Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global...
Local politics like everything else are not what they used to be. But the...
For the past eight years the right has been better at working the refs. Now...
Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant ' it no longer...
The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the...
Most of the provisions designed to fix what ails our health system don't kick...
If newspapers were a baseball team they would be the Mets - without the hope...
The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is...
On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics mistakes are wounding...
The difference between the men and the boys in politics is and always has...
We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without...
First take the government of the Indians out of politics second let the...
Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that...
I call it people-to-people politics and that's what politics should be about...
Most people get their politics obviously from TV shows about senators or...
This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling or about...
There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. It's a difficult game but...