I haven’t read much Karl Marx since the early 1980s, when I taught political philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. Still, it didn’t take me long this weekend to find my copy of “The Marx-Engels Reader,” edited by Robert C. … Read more »

I miss the good old days. Remember when the presidential campaign was all about oil drilling? That sure was fun.

I miss August. August was neat. The Dow was over 10,000 and nobody had ever heard of Sarah Palin.

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Asked in November 2003 whether the United States would “finish the job” in Afghanistan, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) responded “I’m not as concerned as I am about Iraq…but I believe that if Karzai can make the progress that he is … Read more »

It’s time for the distinguished members of the Republican Party to publicly put their country over their politics. (That’s you, Colin Powell, Henry Kissinger and James Baker III.) It’s time (Arlen Specter, Sandra Day O’Connor and Olympia Snowe) to say … Read more »

John McCain: If your campaign does not stop equating Sen. Barack Obama with terrorism, questioning his patriotism and portraying Mr. Obama as “not one of us,” I accuse you of deliberately feeding the most unhinged elements of our society the … Read more »

Earlier this week, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) admitted he would cut $1.3 trillion from Medicare and Medicaid over the next ten years to finance his health care plan. McCain’s proposed cuts echo former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s 1995 effort to … Read more »

Last month, when the U.S. Treasury Department allowed Lehman Brothers to fail, I wrote that Henry Paulson, the Treasury secretary, was playing financial Russian roulette. Sure enough, there was a bullet in that chamber: Lehman’s failure caused the world financial … Read more »

Election officials, who will have plenty on their minds on Nov. 4, have one more thing to worry about: Diebold electronic voting machines that drop votes. Ohio’s secretary of state raised the alarm after local officials reported problems with the … Read more »

In Tuesday night’s debate, Senator John McCain denounced Senator Barack Obama and his “cronies” for receiving campaign money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It was odd to hear him denounce lobbyists, whom he once called “birds of prey,” particularly … Read more »

The goal of the California Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act… Read more »