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After seeing Ava DuVernay' Selma  a few weeks ago, I bought Nick Kotz's Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, ...

From Robin Wright in the New Yorker, a warning about the Islamic State that concentrates the mind: There is a broader danger. The direct...

Going away for the weekend, freaked out by recent polls, holding my breath until Tuesday night...and so reposting one that got a little lost...

In an article pinging across the internets just now, 34 year-old reporter Jim Tankersley calls his 63 year-old lawyer father to the bar to ...

when Nancy Pelosi is exhilarated: Again, I feel very exhilarated by a Caucus meeting that we had this morning in terms of the questions t...

Give George Stephanopoulos his due. In his interview of Hillary Clinton yesterday, his questions about her proposal to extend a nuclear um...

When my older son was about 10, we devised a simple dice baseball game (snake eyes a home run, 3 a single, 4 a strikeout, etc.) and kept tin...