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?

A nation has to be unified enough that people want to share a government.

Antiwar movies are all losing money by the truckload.

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

Never ascribe to hostility what can be explained by stupidity.

Leaders know that there's nothing as disruptive as information.

The amount of space TIME used trying to mislead us shows how important the court really is.

What can the UAW do with $50 billion?

Is there a shortage of conflict in the world today, that we need to dredge up past wrongs?