For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.

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

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

Donald Trump is american neo-fascist. The word "neo" meaning "new", has a lot to do with it, a new kind of fascist in our culture, dealing with an authoritarian demagogic point of view, nativist, anti-immigrant, racism, bigotry that he appeals to.

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.

There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.