Great questions make great reporting.

American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.

I don't know why I'm saying I'm brave.

I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.

Barbara Ehrenreich is smart, provocative, funny, and sane in a world that needs more of all four.

My dad, I still think, had the most beautiful, simple checklist for what you should do in life: Do something you really love that you would do it anyway. Do it in the most adventurous place you can do it. And make sure that it helps other people. And if you feel there's a genuine need for it, and that through that need you can help other people, you're home.

Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion-I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.