The big winners under the American fiscal system are the rich, who pay some of the lowest taxes anywhere in the world; the old, who are the main beneficiaries of the American social service state; farmers, rural people. These are Republican constituencies.
Maybe it's true that people with less extreme views who are also interested in public affairs have been driven out by a marketplace that doesn't offer them anything of the tone they want to listen to.
There are a lot of wonderful people in America who shouldn't be on the Supreme Court - and a lot who should be on the court who aren't such wonderful people.
A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.
Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.
The five million people who watch cable news are the political nation, the people who really care.
People who watch a lot of Fox come away knowing a lot less about important world events.
People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment.