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Let us now praise Barack Obama.
Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.
The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job.
Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.
Obama is defining himself in a way that will destroy him.
Newt Gingrich is a very intelligent man, if he says so himself.
Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost.
Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.
Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.
Obama's victory in November 2008 was a historic political accomplishment.
Obama's claim is that he wants to give. The GOP is saying it wants to take.
Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.
What Obama is saying is simple: The United States has become Too Big To Fail.
I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.
America may be in a dour condition, but it is not going to elect a dour president.
Is victory sweet because your side wins - or is it really because the other side loses?
Newt Gingrich never received more than 100,000 votes in his life. He'll never be president.
In 2013, there were 6,261 black homicide victims in the US — almost all killed by black civilians.
Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will.
I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.
She needs to seem tough, and whatever Hillary's weaknesses, tough is a pretty good word to describe her.
Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going.
There is a new conservative establishment in America, made up of those who claim to be the anti-establishment.
I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.
I've worked as someone's deputy, and now it's time for me to run something. It's time for me to run my own shop.
Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs.
Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.
The sad truth is that you can have peace processes all you like, but if one side is committed to war, then it's war.
For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon.
Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.
Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed.
Whatever Romney's failings, he certainly doesn't suggest that the United States is teetering on the brink of a moral cesspool.
Insulting the electorate and accusing it of spiritual weakness and sinfulness are not the ways to get yourself the job of president.
The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.
The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate.
By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class.
Obama's explanation for the slowdown in economic growth is that the public sector is hurting, and that's where Washington must step in and act.
Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.
America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual.
Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't do impressions.
I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred.
When you have controversial parents, people have expectations about you. If every day at work I thought to myself, 'How does this relate to them?' I'd be paralyzed.
The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.
There's no light at the end of the tunnel in the Republican message, no promise of better things to come. There's only the present stagnation, followed by a slow decline.
The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.
Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation at the expense of everything else.
All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth.
For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion.
Romney is a good, intelligent, extraordinarily generous man who put on a great fight. But he didn't understand the country or the people he sought to lead, and that is why he lost.
Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.