This series explores the question of what modern women want because although a woman's wants are more complicated than a man's, women generally get what they want over time.

The real lesson of Eliot Spitzer's downfall.

The problem for McCain is that he himself has depicted lobbyists as being the Devil Incarnate.

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.

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

I thank God that I've got enough sense to own a gun and that I was able to use it to prevent a possibly serious crime against my family.

Hillary is right in pointing out that most parents could use some help, but it doesn't take a village. It especially doesn't take a village of government-funded social workers, most of whom are either not yet married or divorced.

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.