Hyde Park's Corner

Last Sunday evening, 60-Minutes provided 18 minutes of discussion between interviewer Steve Croft and President-elect Barack Obama. They di...

Cross burnings. Schoolchildren chanting "Assassinate Obama." Black figures hung from nooses. Racial epithets scrawled on homes and...

A new beginning. A better set of governing values. A better approach to national leadership. A shared, consultative role in international le...

Over $100,000 in income, you are more likely than not to vote for Democrats. People never point that out. Rich people vote liberal. I don...

From the cosmos and astrophysics to the subatomic world and quantum mechanics, physicists search for the context and history of what we are,...

An MSNBC article today asks whether this worst financial crisis since the Great Depression will bring about "The End of American-Style ...

Cash for stock. Straight up. That's what Treasury is considering now. It's simpler, to be sure, and would take us out of the busines...

I think you should see and understand this. CBC's "60 Minutes" last night exposed in understandable terms the most complicat...

Last night, I happened on a live, hour-long Charlie Rose interview with Warren Buffet on PBS. It is worth seeing, whether you are as big a...

Saving the world is a thankless task. The only thing beyond dispute in the $700 billion plan of Hank Paulson, the treasury secretary, and Be...

With evangelistic zeal and self-righteousness, G.W. Bush became an aggressive imposer of democracy on the world. And particularly in the lea...

Yes, your genes can predispose you to political attitudes and identity: Republican, Democrat, communist, whatever. At least that's what ...

I won't grow up! (I won't grow up) No, I promise that I won't (No, I promise that I won't) I will stay a boy forever (I will...

I have mostly liked and respected John McCain--at least since the time he was found to have exercised "poor judgment" in his invol...

This is what it has come to. This article , below, is the kind of thing we hear more and more of--and so does the rest of the world. Yet ano...

Population growth is a problem--just not the problem you think it is. Yes, it's hard to forget a book like The Population Bomb (Paul Er...