Somehow, we have reached the point where we view democracy and elections as ends in themselves. But they aren't.

Can you really put a price on a lifetime of voting?

A nation has to be unified enough that people want to share a government.

Antiwar movies are all losing money by the truckload.

We are beginning to see an unholy alliance forming between libel law and a desire to make unpleasant people be quiet.

Never ascribe to hostility what can be explained by stupidity.

Leaders know that there's nothing as disruptive as information.

The statements and actions of the Westboro Baptist Church are precisely the sort of offensive, unpopular, marginal viewpoint that the First Amendment was designed from Day One to protect.

Obesity has now reached the point where serious engineering consequences are required.

The amount of space TIME used trying to mislead us shows how important the court really is.