When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.

Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.

It is easy to get used to the morning news, habituated. But don't. The morning news is yours to alter.

We need to deter the Palestinians in any way we can.

My favorite things in life are my children. If somebody wants to understand me, there's no better window into that than my children.

Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.

I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.