Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to be charitable, people still don't go hungry, unschooled or sick without care. Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance.

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

I'm the front man, I'm the man on camera, but there's a whole team beyond me.

How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.

Empty your knapsack of all adjectives, adverbs and clauses that slo your stride and weaken your pace. Travel light. Remember the most memorable sentences in the English language are also the shortest: "The King is dead" and "Jesus wept."