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

The most important thing the giant philanthropies could do - Gates, Rockefeller, Ford, Open Society Institute, and new ones emerging - would be to create a $2-to-$3 billion Trust for Independent Journalism. They wouldn't miss the money, and democracy would still have a fighting chance because of their investment.

Fox News and Rush Limbaugh have raised ignorance to ideology and stupefied an entire political party. No more roguish and rowdy band of predators ever did more to demean and despoil the democracy on whose carcass they feed.

The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it's changing the conversation.

There's hardly a more bitter pill to take than when a President disappoints the people who most believed in him.

You can't have a people's democracy as long as corporations are considered people.

Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important to the health of democracy.