There's something totally crazy about this.

Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake. The city editor of the Washington Post was on the line. Five men had been arrested earlier that morning in a burglary attempt at Democratic headquarters, carrying photographic equipment and electronic gear. Could he come in?

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

Increasingly, the picture of our society as rendered in our media is illusionary and delusionary: disfigured, unreal, out of touch with reality, disconnected from the true context of our life. It is disfigured by celebrity, by celebrity worship, by gossip, by sensationalism, by denial of our societies

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism.

The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.