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 political contract or merely a charade masquerading as piety and manipulated by the powerful and privileged to sustain their own way of life at the expense of others.

We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.

Democracy works when people claim it as their own

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.

In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness

What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.

We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we'll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we'll not save democracy from its own inertia.