While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

But particularly when the media profess to strive toward objectivity, gatekeepers play a crucial role in helping people navigate the news to make educated political decisions.

Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse than we had previously imagined.

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.

Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republicans.

The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue.

Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady.

Americans get mad as hell with reasonable frequency but quickly return to their families and sitcoms.

The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore.

Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

That’s the trouble with memories: everything seems much more fantastical with a childhood lens to filter out the limitations of reality.

But they get some comfort out of the made up stories. And if that helps them get along maybe I should not poke fun.

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

Every high has an equal, measurable low.

The path of mastering something is the combination of not only doing the best you can do at it, but also doing it the best it can be done.

The United States has, unfortunately, been victimized by terrorism going back decades.

Everything you see on screen is real. By doing what we do, there's naturally going to be a lot of grimacing. And whimpering.

The guards didn't carry weapons. Malcolm X had insisted that the guards not carry firearms that day [February 21, 1965].

Jonny Evans plays sort of international football with Northern Ireland

In this art form, in any art form, generalities are useless.