Congress is the most powerful branch. It can expand a progressive society, or it can block a progressive society.

General Motors could buy Delaware if DuPont were willing to sell it.

Ending police brutality and mass incarceration. There is a growing left-right support for criminal justice reform.

It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.

Militaristic foreign policy is destroying America.

One day at Princeton, I noticed there were dead birds on the pavement between the campus buildings, where very large trees were. It turns out it was DDT. At the time, in the early '50s, no one thought DDT was dangerous to anybody but insects. I went down to the Daily Princetonian, the college paper, and tried to persuade them to do a story. They said, "Naw, there's nothing wrong." But that taught me a very important lesson. One, that newspaper people can get very jaded. Second, that you might know something, like an expert chemistry professor, you are not going to apply what you know.

If it is unpatriotic to tear down the flag, which is a symbol of the country, why isn't it more unpatriotic to desecrate the country itself-to pollute, despoil and ravage the air, land and sea.