Barack Obama has made an original contribution to the debate over gun control.

Sometimes being a "maverick" isn't as glorious as one thinks it will be.

Each of the unfortunate changes in the American system which happened in 1913 would have resulted in some problems probably more manageable each on their own.

It's interesting that Bill Clinton is not called the first African-American president.

There is one way in which we can help the Cuban people, and that is by immediately and unilaterally ending the embargo that has been in place for all these years.

Freedom, by definition, includes the freedom to choose to be an idiot.

Americans complain about the lack of true leaders and of today's poll-driven politicians. But if American is a democracy, isn't that exactly how it is supposed to work?

George W Bush, lambasted as the destroyer of peace in the Middle East, may preside over the most welcome development there since the Second World War.

A computer can only do what it's told, or programmed, to do - it can't force people to do anything, unless they allow it to do so.

The conservatives have rightly complained about the fiasco that was the CNN/YouTube debate, to say nothing of Chris Matthews' execrable moderating. Now the shoe is on the other foot, and it doesn't fit any better on that side.