'We, The People' is more than a statement of purpose. It is an acknowledgement of an obligation to each other. — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
In theory, at least, all presidents are servants of the people who elected them. In the case of Barack Obama, it has… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
There was no way to lock down, or tighten up, or Fail-Safe into Security Theater a race that covers 26.2 miles, a… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
One of the great changes wrought by the increased public awareness of Alzheimer's - and thank you, Nancy Reagan, you wonderful tough… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
Nobody loves the Boston Marathon as much as the people who make fun of it year after year. This was the race… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
Launching a newspaper without a coherent idea of how you're going to promote it, or get it to people who might want… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
According to the people who dearly would love to throw him out of office, Barack Obama was elected to be 'above politics.'… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
You know, what genuinely makes me uneasy with the way things are going are not - is not really that Trump is… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton was not a symbol. People did not invest in him their idea of what America should be or, worse, their… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
It is now an article of absolute faith among Republicans that 'the government' is an entity separate from 'the American people,' which… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
If you offer athletes stipends, then you're into pay-for-play, and that's the ballgame. People should realize that, and they should realize that… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
There is a barbarism in the American soul, and we must protect some of it by law. To root it out is to endanger… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share
This has been the new normal since September 11. Everyone knows, but nobody says, that if something happens again, the elite consensus in this… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share
For all the huffing and blowing we get about rugged individualism, the American spirit and the American experiment always have had at their heart… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share
There is a lot in American politics (and in American life) that is angry, greedy, reckless and violent. — Charlie Pierce Copy Share
The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow Martin Luther King Jr. to… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share
You know, what genuinely makes me uneasy with the way things are going are not - is not really that Trump is going to… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share
The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share
In order to get big things done, sometimes, presidents have to be deft at moving the pea around under the shells. — Charlie Pierce Copy Share
There was no way to lock down, or tighten up, or Fail-Safe into Security Theater a race that covers 26.2 miles, a race that… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share
To recognize that head injuries were as essential a part of football as they are of boxing would be to erase the fine distinction… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share
School districts around the country, and the taxpayers that support them, have a moral right to the information the NFL might have concerning the… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share
There are few colonial nations anymore. Instead, we are colonized by financial institutions beyond our political control. We are colonized with pens and papers… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share
Obama ran as sane and decent, as though we were electing a mood, and not necessarily a set of policies. Unfortunately, Obama has governed… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share
One of the great changes wrought by the increased public awareness of Alzheimer's - and thank you, Nancy Reagan, you wonderful tough old dame,… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share
