Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.

Barack Obama treated too lightly the people and forces determined to destroy him. They spat in his face and didn't even get ticketed for a misdemeanor.

I like what I do and keep thinking the best is yet to come.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

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

Sure enough, as merger has followed merger, journalism has been driven further down the hierarchy of values in the huge conglomerates that dominate what we see, read and hear. And to feed the profit margins journalism has been directed to other priorities than "the news we need to know to keep our freedoms"