Whenever a president nominates somebody to a high-profile post, there is always the risk that some skeleton, real or imagined, will emerge from the nominee's closet and doom the whole enterprise.

Whenever a Kurd wants to measure the depth of some foreign leader's commitment to Kurdish autonomy, he listens for one particular word. That word is 'federal.' Anyone who will say he favors Kurdish federalism can be counted a friend of the Kurds.

It is the skeleton in Microsoft's closet. We routinely find them.

Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphant with the truth.

Income inequality has gotten worse under President Barack Obama.

There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless