We should not be comfortable or content in a society where the only way to remain free of surveillance and repression is if we make ourselves as unthreatning, passive, and compliant as possible.

Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveillance Revelations

The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history.

It's hard to imagine a more potent sign of a weak, declining empire than having one's national 'credibility' depend upon periodically bombing other countries.

American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.

Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs.

The War on Terror has been and continues to be, above all, a war on the most basic liberties and political safeguards that we're all taught are what distinguishes the US and keeps it free.