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My guest Newt Gingrich shut down the government during the Clinton administration. I'll ask him when...

There hasn't been a scandal this big at the C.I.A. since (CLASSIFIED) committed (CENSORED) to (REDAC...

Can't wait for tomorrow when I get to exercise my patriotic duty as an American: Complaining about h...

Forgot to live-tweet the election last night, so I'm post-tweeting today. I'll start as soon as my f...

It's August, which means Congress is on recess and Mitch McConnell has shimmied back into the ocean ...

Throughout human history, countries rise and fall. But not America--we continue to rise and rise, li...

I have a map of the United States... Actual size. It says, 'Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile.' I spent last su...

Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yell...

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own coun...

Monotonous talk of the end of American hegemony, the universal cliché of the period, is mostly a way...

Though American scenery is destitute of many of those circumstances that give value to the European,...

Larry has been absorbed, as he wished, into that tumultuous conglomeration of humanity, distracted b...

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.

The ongoing changes in the distribution of global power and mounting global strife make it all the m...

The world became more aware that America-despite being the hope of many who have the personal drive ...

Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to...

It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country t...

It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country t...

If this were a courageous country,it would ask Gloria to lead itsince she is sane and funny and beau...

For most Americans, our most precious possession is citizenship in this amazing country.

He pondered that a little while and then he asked, do Black people have to pay for their doctors, to...

Our democracy is threatened whenever we take it for granted.

But that’s part of what makes America wonderful, is we always had this nagging dissatisfaction that ...

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact t...

The absence of even rough agreement on the facts puts every opinion on equal footing and therefore e...

We have no authoritative figure, no Walter Cronkite or Edward R. Murrow whom we all listen to and tr...

During an hour-long conversation mid-flight, he laid out his theory of the war. First, Jones said, t...

I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely t...

In the words of Mr Thierry Coup of Warner Bros: 'We are taking the most iconic and powerful moments ...

My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as ...

June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the rece...

To those who will decide if he should be tried for 'high crimes and misdemeanors' -the House of Repr...

We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionarie...

It is notorious that the news of the Emancipation Proclamation was kept from the people of Texas and...

Indifferent to truth, willing to use police-state tactics and vulgar libels against inconvenient wit...

[I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous t...

At least two important conservative thinkers, Ayn Rand and Leo Strauss, were unbelievers or nonbelie...

Not to dampen any parade, but if one asks if there is a single thing about Mr. Obama's Senate record...

Question: Which Mediterranean government shares all of Ronald Reagan's views on international terror...

I can see why people find him [Hugo Chávez] charming. He's very ebullient, as they say. I've heard h...

I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyon...

Lefever describes his financing plan with modesty:"'Our detailed budget is realistic, but does not t...

Don't write in to ask whether I would prefer Gingrich to Clinton. Ask, rather, whether Clinton prefe...

Among the privileges of being a superpower, the right and the ability to make a local quarrel into a...

Those of us who follow politics seriously rather than view it as a game show do not look at Hillary ...

1. Bangladesh.... In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani genera...

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was...

One also hears a great deal about how this awful joint tenure of the executive mansion was a good th...

This brings us to the crux moment in the supposed 'Show Trial' melodrama. Employing the confusing an...

During the Senate debate on the intervention in Iraq, Sen. Clinton made considerable use of her back...

Without Thomas Jefferson and his Declaration of Independence, there would have been no American revo...

I am not one of those who believes—as Obama is said to believe—that a solution to the Palestinian st...

So here we have found a means of a) alienating even the most flexible and patient Palestinians; whil...

One might come up with other and kinder distinctions (I shall not be doing so) but the plain fact ab...

I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization again...

At least two important conservative thinkers, Ayn Rand and Leo Strauss, were unbelievers or nonbelie...

The United States finds itself with forces of reaction. Do I have to demonstrate this? The Taliban's...

Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has no...

In the spring of 1990 I flew to Aspen, Colorado, to cover a summit meeting between Prime Minister Ma...

It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when ...

The 'pre-emption' versus 'prevention' debate may be a distinction without much difference. The impor...

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal an...

The President is also captured in a well-worn TV news clip, making a boilerplate response to a quest...

There is no such thing as notoriety in the United States these days, let alone infamy. Celebrity is ...

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went...

During the 1992 election I concluded as early as my first visit to New Hampshire that Bill Clinton w...

British diplomats and Anglo-American types in Washington have a near-superstitious prohibition on ut...

Americanism in all its forms seemed to be trashy and wasteful and crude, even brutal. There was a me...

How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary soc...

An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what ...

Inevitably came the time when he angrily repudiated his former paladin Yasser Arafat. In fact, he de...

A little later, the Apollo mission was consummated and there were Americans on the moon. I remember ...

[T]he hyphenation question is, and always has been and will be, different for English immigrants. On...

In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these...

It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has ...

It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer c...

Now, I have always wanted to agree with Lady Bracknell that there is no earthly use for the upper an...

Remaining for a moment with the question of legality and illegality: United Nations Security Council...

Sarah Palin appears to have no testable core conviction except the belief (which none of her defende...

The burden therefore rests with the American legal community and with the American human-rights lobb...

And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes--believes with all...

The other patrollers were boys and men of bad character; the work attracted a type. In another count...

If niggers were supposed to have their freedom, they wouldn't be in chains. If the red man was suppo...

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.

I like the relaxed way in which the Japanese approach religion. I think of myself as basically a mor...

The country he had left thirty years ago had been a realistic place. There were political realities ...

His frustration with some Americans was like that of a disappointed parent. He was so content in thi...

Everybody is comparing the oil spill to Hurricane Katrina, but the real parallel could be the Irania...

Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insur...

While working in California, I met William Valentiner and Edgar Richardson of the Detroit Institute ...

Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen ...

There is one thing that has disappeared, not just from the U.S. but from the entire world, is the id...

I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority o...

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants a...

From the end of the World War twenty-one years ago, this country, like many others, went through a p...

The industrial part of Detroit is really the most interesting side, otherwise it’s like the rest of ...

Too often, we judge other groups by their worst examples - while judging ourselves by our best inten...