Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.

Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.

The one thing that I do is take really complicated systems and subjects and make them accessible to regular people.

Unquestionably, however, something else is at work, something that cuts deeper into the American psyche. We have a profound hatred of the weak and the poor, and a corresponding groveling terror before the rich and successful, and we're building a bureaucracy to match those feelings.

The print magazine and print journalism industry is obviously in a great deal of trouble, and one of the things that happened when this business started to give way to the Internet and to broadcast television is that a lot of organizations started cutting specifically investigative journalism and they also started cutting fact-checkers.