Exactly a year ago I traveled to Havana to visit a Cuban friend.

I'll never forget the day I learned that Tom Hayden had married Jane Fonda.

It’s pretty rare to see a Nobel Prize winning writer at work, but I’ve had that experience twice. I’m talking about this year’s laureate for literature, Bob Dylan.

The funeral of Shimon Peres was exactly the kind of grand sendoff that he, himself, himself would have appreciated.

Unfairly or not, on the subject of her health the burden of proof is on Hillary.

For more than nine months, Hillary Clinton kept the press corps on a starvation diet of campaign releases, second-hand twitter remarks, surrogates, televised commercials and public speeches.

Hillary Clinton is now the leader of a Democratic Party whose power—real and symbolic—has largely passed into the hands of women.

The collective wisdom of the political class is that Donald Trump’s acceptance speech tomorrow night in Cleveland is crucial to his candidacy.

On Tuesday, in Dallas, at the memorial service for the five white cops murdered by a black gunman, President Obama delivered a graceful and eloquent meditation on race relations in America.

It looks like Mike Tyson isn’t going to be addressing the Republican National Convention this year. And that’s a good thing.