I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially unilaterally disarming.

Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.

For a long time, I was under the impression that 'Terry and the Pirates' was the best comic strip in the United States.

NATO's essentially run by the United States.

The eradication of racial and religious prejudice in the United States - and in the rest of the world as well - is a long-term process.

The notion that it is improper to look beyond the borders of the United States in grappling with hard questions has a certain kinship to the view that the U.S. Constitution is a document essentially frozen in time as of the date of its ratification.