As a young kid, I spent a lot of time exploring the world around me.

Disturbingly, the First Amendment, along with the Fourth Amendment - protecting against unreasonable searches and seizures, and requiring warrants - have been the major casualties of the shift in government policy in the last two decades. Unfortunately, I think that the biggest consequences of this tragedy won't be clear until it is far, far too late.

I think we can achieve meaningful change, but only if we demand that the institutions themselves change their behavior.

I prefer a painful truth over any blissful fantasy.

Anxiety, depression, and suicide don't discriminate based on how much money you have - though it might make it easier for you to get help.

As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the question of how the United States military controlled the media coverage of its long involvement there and in Afghanistan.

Sometimes You Have to Pay a Heavy Price to Live in a Free Society