not diluting the marriage between a man and a woman.

Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves...

People have been scared straight, and between now and Election Day will be one of the purest periods in American life.

Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it’s expensive to boot.

But on those occasions when I do strongly disagree with the Democrats and I don’t say anything, I think I forfeit my right to have people pay attention to me when I say the things...

an extraordinarily stupid rule.

It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.

We will be seeking to knock out that part that says groups that engage in voter-registration and get-out-the-vote activities are not eligible.

What’s troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

He couldn’t stop taking blame. He was a basket case and couldn’t keep it together.

But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects – that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how...

This is very revealing of the hypocrisy of the NRA, … They would have the second amendment of the Constitution amended so it would also read ‘a well regulated militia being necessary to the security...

It is true that the results of the American intervention in Afghanistan will certainly be a far more democratic Afghanistan, and I welcome that.