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

All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the three original TV networks.

Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

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

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 pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.

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