Fortunately, I'm married to someone who's a pretty excellent parent!
I was never a Democrat. I went from Republican to Maoist and then back again.
The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes.
Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.
Judges were not the biggest issue for most voters in Georgia in 2002.
Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children.
Art can only progress towards its own self-annihilation.
She felt the intimate loss of who she was meant to become.
I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.
As an undergraduate I held many small jobs as an illustrator.
Heads of France lead from a palace, and traditionally they retire to a cloud.
But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls.
I have seen heroics - soldiers saving other soldiers' lives - and horrors.
If Israel sees weapons moving toward its border, it acts.
Israel is shutting out the Arab world and shutting itself in.
Israel sees the world just beyond its borders collapsing.
The Syrians are better suited to sort out their internal divisions than anyone else.
To be slapped with a shoe is a dirty insult in the Muslim world.
Anything may be possible in America, but a Palin presidency is virtually implausible.
It's a deft trick to turn American exceptionalism into an exceptional political tactic.
'Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.