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….

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….

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

The Supreme Court consistently favors organized money and the political privileges of the corporate class. We have a Senate that is more responsive t….

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

We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own story as a nation, our own stories of our people….

In one way or another, this is the oldest story in America: the struggle to determine whether “we, the people” is a moral compact embedded in a polit….

We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out..

Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed and life is n….

How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?.

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yo….

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..

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….

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….

I was not a public - I was not a thinker. I was a doer..

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 have seen hate born of fear, hate speaking in the name of God and truth, hate holding up a distorting mirror to fellow human beings..

Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done..

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..

If being tolerant of differing opinions, if believing that America has to make it as a pluralistic nation, if being civil, if that makes you a libera….

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