When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest..

Fox News and Rush Limbaugh have raised ignorance to ideology and stupefied an entire political party. No more roguish and rowdy band of predators eve….

In America, one of our two major parties is dominated by extremists dedicated to destroying the social contract, and the other party has been so enfe….

If the watchdog doesn't bark, how do you know there's a burglar in the basement? And the press is supposed to be a watchdog..

The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined..

These are the now-endangered markers of a civilized society: legally ordained minimum wages, child labor laws, workers safety and compensation laws, ….

There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought..

People who don't believe in government are likely to defy our government..

Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table..

They're counting on your patriotism to distract you from their plunder. They're counting on you to be standing at attention with your hand over your ….

The struggle of ordinary people for a decent living, for security, is as old as the republic, but it's taken on a new and urgent edge. Instead of sha….

News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity..

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of..

Having lost faith in all else, zealots have nothing left but a holy cause to please a warrior God. They win if we become holy warriors, too; if we ki….

I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there mig….

On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned on the radio for the traffic and weathe….

Barack Obama treated too lightly the people and forces determined to destroy him. They spat in his face and didn't even get ticketed for a misdemeano….

We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings..

Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to be charitable….

The most encouraging sign is that 71 percent of the public believe the system is profoundly corrupted by the power of money. Ninety-six percent of th….

Conservatives or better, pro-corporate apologists hijacked the vocabulary of Jeffersonian liberalism and turned words like "progress," "opportunity,"….