Palestinian militancy has accomplished nothing but increasing the misery of the Palestinian people. If Palestinians instead turned more to huge Gandhi-style nonviolence resistance campaigns, the resulting videos would reverberate around the world and Palestine would achieve statehood and freedom.

Let me be clear: I'm a believer in a robust military, which is essential for backing up diplomacy. But the implication is that we need a balanced tool chest of diplomatic and military tools alike. Instead, we have a billionaire military and a pauper diplomacy. The U.S. military now has more people in its marching bands than the State Department has in its foreign service - and that's preposterous.

More Americans die in gun homicides and suicides in six months than have died in the last 25 years in every terrorist attack and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq combined.

America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

I think when hundreds of thousands of lives are on the line, you might have to set aside some principles.

One of the principles of journalism is you don't lie. You never lie.

We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur