There's 1,000 ways into addiction 1,000 ways out..

When we were covering the 2008 campaign I told my young African American colleagues that despite the historical significance of victory, Barack Obama….

Why is the country not having this conversation, the kind of conversation that requires the politicians who are responsible for the war to be specifi….

Now Barack Obama, who campaigned for transparency, is the President defending secret negotiations on new trade agreements that are largely being writ….

Journalism's been a continuing course in adult education for me..

When all our efforts have come to nothing, we naturally tend to doubt not just ourselves, but also whether God is just. At those moments, our only ho….

The most important thing the giant philanthropies could do - Gates, Rockefeller, Ford, Open Society Institute, and new ones emerging - would be to cr….

America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies ….

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington..

We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we'll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we'll not save d….

I can't speak for a war that I believe is immoral..

Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country..

I own and operate a ferocious ego..

You can't have a people's democracy as long as corporations are considered people..

Reagan's story of freedom superficially alludes to the Founding Fathers, but its substance comes from the Gilded Age, devised by apologists for the r….

I report the assault on nature evidenced in coal mining that tears the tops off mountains and dumps them into rivers, sacrificing the health and live….

Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder..

Although I was brought up in a culturally and religious conservative culture, as a Baptist I was taught that no one has the right to subpoena your co….

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people..

Barack Obama seemed to think he could win over his enemies. He certainly seemed to believe too much in his own powers of persuasion. One thing's for ….

The most fundamental liberal failure of the current era: the failure to embrace a moral vision of America based on the transcendent faith that human ….