Monotonous talk of the end of American hegemony, the universal cliché of the period, is mostly a way of avoiding mounting a serious opposition to it.

That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot infecting the official political culture.

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.

You don't know how excited he was about that -- he was in the United States on his 21st birthday.

The 21st century simply means open century.