Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.

Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.

The status quo is working.

What the press never does say is who the leaker is and why he wants the story leaked. Yet, more often than not, this is the more important story: What policy wins if the one being disclosed loses?

Am I embarrassed to speak for a less than perfect democracy? Not one bit. Find me a better one. Do I suppose there are societies which are free of sin? No, I don't. Do I think ours is, on balance, incomparably the most hopeful set of human relations the world has? Yes, I do.

We have the right to our own opinions, but not our own facts.

People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact.