Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.

Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.

Officers are taught to use all the tricks and lies that courts permit within the scope of the Fifth Amendment's shield against self-incrimination.

If you have never been tortured, or locked up and verbally threatened, you may find it hard to believe that anyone would confess to something he had not done. Intuition holds that the innocent do not make false confessions.

If you stand with the Customs and Border Protection officers who staff the passport booths at Dulles airport near the nation's capital, their task seems daunting.

Here among the constant ruins and rebuilding of civilizations lies the coexistence of diversity and intolerance.

Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.