As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher..

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

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….

A profound transformation is happening here. The framers of our nation never envisioned these huge media giants; never imagined what could happen if ….

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

Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition..

Jon Stewart is a remarkable satirist and parodist in the vein of Mark Twain, because Jon Stewart understands what Mark Twain knew, which is that the ….

Fate handed Barack Obama the best of all political gifts - a dyspeptic, surly, spiteful opposition on the one hand and very unpopular financiers on t….

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 ….

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

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….

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 ….

A free press is one where it's okay to state the conclusion you're led to by the evidence. One reason I'm in hot water is because my colleagues and I….

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

Democracy only works when we claim it as our own..

In uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life - one's own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in peace i….

What we need is what the ancient Israelites called hochma - the science of the heart...the capacity to see, to feel, and then to act as if the future….