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

Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House - as Brutus loved Caesar.

...there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.

The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.

I've lived long enough to see the triumph of zealots and absolutists, to watch money swallow politics, to witness the rise of the corporate state. See the party of working and poor people become a sycophant of crony capitalism. Watch the union of church and state become fashionable again. Witness the coupling of news and entertainment. See everyday people cast overboard as the pirates and predators of Wall Street seized the ship of state. I didn't drift; I moved left just by standing still.

The delusional is no longer marginal.

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.