They say when one door closes, another opens. And so it goes for Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. Her political career may be winding down, but she’s just getting started.

Corporate donors and the mega-wealthy should no longer be allowed to hide their contributions behind the banner of these “social welfare queens.”

The larger outrage — the real scandal — will be lost in a din of grandstanding.

Why targeted petitions may be the only way to enact sensible gun control legislation.

No other modern leader — and perhaps no other political leader in history — inspired so much musical hatred.

Amazon’s purchase of the book recommending site Goodreads marks the latest freak-out in the world of publishing.

The time has come to move beyond the rhetoric and begin takin’ it to the streets.

Steve Almond isn’t opposed to spending cuts. Far from it. He just wants them to target what he sees as the real problems — like Big Oil subsidies and Donald Trump.

Feb. 14 doesn’t have to be about flowers and chocolates and that dreary feeling of being worked by clever capitalists. It can, and should, be about setting aside a single day for love. Still don’t like it? Too bad. Stop whining. Start reading.

Ben Affleck has outright said he won’t run for Massachusetts’ open Senate seat, but Steve Almond has six compelling arguments for why the actor should reconsider his decision.

From Mud Rooms to Super Bugs: California-bred Steve Almond translates some basic seasonal terms for fellow non-natives.

I’m tired of writers passing judgment on entire genres. Journalistic narcissism — or, more politely, writing about oneself — has a place.

Who needs realistic predictions for 2013 when Steve Almond has brewed up such an imaginative batch of possibilities?

It would be dangerously naïve to attribute the carnage of Newtown — and the grim litany of others before it — as something entirely apart from us.

As another Movember draws to a close, thousands of mustachioed do-gooders are confronted with the perennial question: To shave or not to shave?

It was forbidden from the start. He was a four-star general. I was an occasionally publishable author. We were both married to other women. It made no sense. But how could we stop ourselves?

Channeling the commander in chief, Steve Almond tries his hand at speech-writing and makes a final pitch to voters.

Sandy isn’t just some variable in the latest polling data. It’s a category 5 example of the glaring philosophical differences between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.

The era of hyper-partisanship in this country will only diminish when (and if) the ragers on the right start to become more self-critical, and the mopers on the left more outwardly courageous.

If Elizabeth Warren is guilty of exploiting her ethnicity for personal gain, Steve Almond says he is too.

Love him or hate him, everyone does what Mitt Romney is being skewered for. We tell one story in public — and another in private.

Commentator Steve Almond says only if George Clooney were to choose a young Paul Newman to be his running mate would a ticket even come close to matching the combined stud quotient that is Romney/Ryan.

Maybe Mitt Romney isn’t ready to explain his tax returns, but Steve Almond wants to reveal every sordid detail of his own.