For The Past Eight Years, The Right

There Are More People At Obama's Table Offering Ideas Than There Were Five Years Ago, But When It Came To Facing Up To The Republicans' Threat To Force A Double-dip Recession If They Didn't Get Their Millionaires' Tax Cut, They Still Amounted To Nothing. And Therein Lies Our Fundamental Problem.

Three Centuries After The Appearance Of Franklin's 'courant,' It No Longer Requires A Dystopic Imagination To Wonder Who Will Have The Dubious Distinction Of Publishing America's Last Genuine Newspaper. Few Believe That Newspapers In Their Current Printed Form Will Survive.

The Economist Is Undoubtedly The Smartest Weekly Newsmagazine In The English Language. I Always Look Forward To Its Quirky Year-end Double Issue.

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.

While History Never Repeats Itself, Political Patterns Do.