This is not about celebrity justice, this is about the rights of the children.

All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.

Israel and the Palestinians must resolve their own differences. The United States can play an important role as facilitator and guarantor.

If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.

If America has the right to target Osama bin Laden, or terrorists, of course Israel has the right to defend itself from terrorism.

In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral criteria for how to make those choices.

Any human being has private thoughts.