My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem how do you approach the problem?

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

I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.

I think there's a misconception that I'm opposed to social media.

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

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

Maybe we're all a little too desperate these days for a simple formula to explain how our safe world came unhinged. That, as much as anything, may explain one of the more enduring conspiracy theories of the moment, the notion that we are about to send a quarter of a million American soldiers to war for the sake of Israel.