Phil Klein boils down what each party must do in order to win the health-care reform debate: Will Americans trust Obama that he can insure everybody, control costs, allow everybody to keep the insurance they have, improve the quality of health ...

Two Republican lawmakers have apparently introduced a “revenue neutral” carbon tax bill. In practical terms, Reps. Inglis and Flake’s basic idea is to increase carbon taxes, and then reduce...

The United States is in a tough spot. As we dig ourselves out from a serious financial crisis and a deep recession, our very efforts to recover are exacerbating much more fundamental problems that our country has let fester for too long. Beyond our...

This afternoon, I finished up Batman: Dark Victory, the Jeph Loeb-scripted, Tim Sale-penciled sequel to their previous Batman miniseries, The Long Halloween. Once again, I was underwhelmed. There are some strong elements to the book — Sale’s shadowy...

I’ve been reading Alan Moore’s mid-80s run on Swamp Thing. It’s a little too self-serious at times, but for the most part, it’s tremendously entertaining and delightfully weird — a panel-driven, four-color eco-horror soap opera. Speaking of...

I have a diavlog up at bloggingheads with Dave Roberts on (what else?) Climategate and Copenhagen. I think it was a productive discussion.

Here is President Obama in Oslo accepting the Nobel Peace Prize: The world rallied around America after the 9/11 attacks, and continues to support our efforts in Afghanistan, because of the horror of those senseless attacks and the recognized...