The things I really cared about - poverty, the Great Society, civil rights - were all being drained away by the Vietnam War. The line that keeps runn….

How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?.

We seem to prefer a comfortable lie to the uncomfortable truth. We punish those who point out reality, and reward those who provide us with the comfo….

I've always thought the American eagle needed a left wing and a right wing. The right wing would see to it that economic interests had their legitima….

Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally acce….

The consensual seduction of the mainstream media by and with the government is one of the most dangerous toxins at work in America today..

The massive upward distribution of wealth engineered by our political class over the last few decades has solidified the plutocratic control of the r….

America is the longest argument in the world..

When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too..

Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don't talk about what democracy means - what it bestows….

Empty your knapsack of all adjectives, adverbs and clauses that slo your stride and weaken your pace. Travel light. Remember the most memorable sente….

I'm the front man, I'm the man on camera, but there's a whole team beyond me..

When the public loses faith in democracy's ability to solve the problems it has created for itself, the game's almost over. And I think we are this c….

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life..

The thing about war is that once it's triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges, the more it wants..

An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias, a people made morbidl….

President Bush, whose scorn for journalists is balanced by a soft spot in his heart for the conglomerates they work for, threatens to veto the Senate….

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination..

I believe democracy requires a 'sacred contract' between journalists and those who put their trust in us to tell them what we can about how the world….

What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does..

Our economy is a plantation run for the aristocrats - the CEOs, hedge funds, private equity firms - while the field hands are left with the scraps..