I lived a few miles outside of a tiny town in central Oklahoma. I would often run amok though the fields of wheat, the patches of trees, along the railroad tracks, and on red dirt roads. This had a profound effect on my view of the world - vast, open-ended, full of opportunity, and ready for exploration.

Visibility is not equality.

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.

It can be so difficult to get people to think about systemic institutional problems. It is easier just to see the actions of one or two people and say, "That's wrong!"

I think it's actually kind of sweet how there is a reciprocal effect that our stories can have on each other.

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

I think the embryonic digital world had the same affect on me as the openness of the old American frontier.