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.

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

You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.

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

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

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

Good journalism should challenge people, not just mindlessly amuse them.