Some idealists suggest that election campaigns be paid for by the Treasury -- taxpayers would pay for campaigns intended to elect people we don't like. In fact, we DO have public campaign funding but nobody wants to admit it.

A president is supposed to be emotionally stable, not a weeping willow.

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 does Mr. Gates plan to do with all the extra people that won't die from malaria now that his foundation has found a cure?

The Romans understood nation building, an art we and the British have forgotten.