But particularly when the media profess to strive toward objectivity, gatekeepers play a crucial role in helping people navigate the news to make educated political decisions.

Selling is helping people to do what they're already inclined to do.

If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary to use some sort of standard with which to judge their reliability. Perhaps the answer (strictly advisory) is a body of their peers. Perhaps not.

We may not realize it, but a crucial step in building a healthy economy is helping people move from welfare to work.

When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.

The pleasure we derive from doing favors in partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.