The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.

Liberation movements - prizing ends over means - are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.

Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.

Casual reliance on unnamed sources...corrodes our credibility and, in cases that are rare but not rare enough, may abet journalistic malpractice.

Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.

Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.

Most recently, the president's reluctance to offend Senator Rick Santorum - a Catholic theocrat who believes that states should have the power to arrest gay lovers in their bedrooms, or even to criminalize couples who use contraceptives - was an occasion to wonder what, exactly, Mr. Bush was born-again into.