I watch CNN, it's so much anger and hatred and just the hatred.

The reporting is fake. Look, look...You know what it is? Here's the thing. The public isn't - you know, they read newspapers, they see television, they watch. They don't know if it's true or false because they're not involved.But I'm involved. So I know when you're telling the truth or when you're not. I just see many, many untruthful things.

Of course the system can be changed. Why would I bother spending 14 years of my life blogging if I didn't believe that?

On the Medicare side, they limited their cuts to far in the future, and to providers.

If you want to make a difference in America, you need to be prepared for a very long, very frustrating slog.

Rising inequality is a cultural and economic cancer on a lot of different levels.

In other words, in the same way that mass incarceration surged because of a real thing, it's finally starting to ebb because of a real thing: the actual, concrete decline in violent crime that started in the early 90s and which appears to be permanent. America is simply a safer place than it used to be, and looks set to stay that way.