The Supreme Court consistently favors organized money and the political privileges of the corporate class. We have a Senate that is more responsive to affluent constituents than to middle-class constituents, while the opinions of constituents in the bottom third of income distribution have no apparent effect at all on the Senate's roll call votes.

When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.

There's 1,000 ways into addiction 1,000 ways out.

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

Our children are being raised by appliances.

Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

What we need is what the ancient Israelites called hochma - the science of the heart...the capacity to see, to feel, and then to act as if the future depended on you. Believe me, it does.