Don't regulate campaign finance; just require disclosure.

Can we have a little dignity please?

By taking this preposterous action, the CIA has provided a signal service.

Not only don't we need one, we're better off without one.

Unlimited money, unlimited visibility, unlimited clout - what could possibly go wrong?

Somehow, we have reached the point where we view democracy and elections as ends in themselves. But they aren't.

Can you really put a price on a lifetime of voting?

We are beginning to see an unholy alliance forming between libel law and a desire to make unpleasant people be quiet.

What are we to make of the news that career State Department staffers are refusing to go to Iraq?

Why such a difference between the handling of the California fires, vs Katrina in New Orleans?