Ron Fournier

Historians will likely give Obama credit for steering the country away from the brink of economic collapse in 2009.

For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda.

'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and virtually incorruptible.

Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent.

I think the long interview has an important life.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.