“While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless...” — John Podhoretz Quote

While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future.

Christopher Nolan's astounding third Batman feature, 'The Dark Knight Rises,' represents the true maturation of the superhero movie - and provides the key to understanding the bottomless craving moviegoers have for these films, 34 years after the Christopher Reeve Superman gave birth to the genre.

Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.

Aside from being bad sportsmanship - Romney basically said Obama won by cheating - he was displaying the same obtuseness about the wants and needs of ordinary people that did more to torpedo his campaign than any goodies Obama might have had to dole out.

I have total confidence in Beaute Prestige International to accompany me in creating a perfume that interprets my work and my world.

I love the playfulness and braggadocio that accompanies a ton of rap music - that's basically what makes up the foundation for most rappers. But there is nothing 'weirder' to me than someone who has never doubted themselves.

America in the age of Donald Trump is more permissive of explicit racism than it's been at any point since the civil rights era. And because bigotries rarely dance alone, the president's nativism is accompanied by anti-black racism - first seen in his 'birther' crusade against Barack Obama - anti-Muslim prejudice, and anti-Semitism.

I grew up watching film shootings as I always accompanied my father during my holidays. So I was not scared about facing the camera nor did I go to any acting classes.