Mexico has perhaps, in some ways, a good practice, in which it has officials devoted precisely to hold those children, to retain those children that... →
Enrique Pena Nieto
Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.
Richard M. Nixon
I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the... →
To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.
Timothy Noah
The promise of Obama's presidency, in many people's minds, is partly that America will move toward becoming a post-racial society. It's... →
Gun Owners of America is a lobby group dedicated to the proposition that the National Rifle Association is a bunch of accommodationist sissies.
The $100 bill may be America's most successful export.
Electing Barack Obama president was a glorious Jackie Robinson moment for the United States of America. Obama didn't just win; he became the... →
Loopy as the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings system is, it's better than what you'd probably get by putting such... →
One of the enduring mysteries of America's occupation of Iraq is why a nation that so little relishes peacekeeping nonetheless refuses to turn... →