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I love America. I love democracy. I love freedom and capitalism. The biggest lie conservatives tell is to deny this...

What the Internet did to words in the first decade of this century, it’s now doing to video. I have...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL0pISorUNw As my new Christmas tradition, I re-watched The Apartment last night. It’s a love story, set in an insurance...

In the past I used Christmas to talk about my family, my career, or the news. But now I’m approaching...

It's the best of times. It's the worst of times. Despite a strong economy, despite some good polls, people of...

Recently a development officer from my alma mater, the Medill School at Northwestern University, came by my house to visit....

The world is at war. The war is not going well. People are anxious, depressed, and withdrawn, fearful that the...

Decades ago, when I first moved to Atlanta’s Kirkwood, it was a poor neighborhood. But I found several small grocery...

I’m no foreign policy expert. Nor am I willing to foist my prejudices about the Middle East on you. They’re...

Almost 15 years ago, I published a piece here called The Obama Thesis of Consensus. I believed the 2008 election...