It’s time for Democrats Suck: The Immigration Reform Edition. Here’s a clip from my latest Salon essay:

When Republicans stand strong on principles while Democrats obsess about political practicality, Democrats repeatedly concede too much and Republicans repeatedly win more than policy and politics would otherwise dictate. The immigration reform markup is only the latest [...]

I wrote a travel and leisure story for the Fox News website — about how hard it is to get into some of the nation’s hippest restaurants, and whether that’s a good thing or not. Here’s a clip:

The line outside San Francisco’s hottest new restaurant starts forming at about 4:00 pm on a [...]

For Mother’s Day, I wrote about the roots of the holiday — and the future of American families:

Today in America, four out of five families fall outside the traditional notion of a mom at home and a dad at work and a bunch of kids in the yard with the picket fence. And [...]

This weekend, for my first time, I went to Washington, DC, for the White House Correspondent’s Dinner. And mostly to maintain a record for my own memory and ensure myself that I wasn’t dreaming, I decided to jot down my best moments from the many-great-moments-packed weekend. Plus there are some stories too good not [...]