My job in writing columns, as I see it, is to attempt to work out how the original American experiment could be extended and improved upon and made to serve the purpose of addressing various emerging political-economic problems...

As economist Thomas Sowell frequently points out, most Americans don't stay in the same income bracket their entire lives...

During this campaign season New York Times reporter Mark Leibovich has established himself as someone worth reading...

The buzz these days is that American politics may be entering a “postpartisan” era, as a new generation finds the old ideological quarrels among baby boomers to be increasingly irrelevant...