Our Economy Is A Plantation Run For

Barack Obama Strikes Me As A Man Of Strong Principles And Weak Convictions - The Kind Of Guy Who Would Rather Teach Constitutional Law Than Practice It, Or Who'd Rather Watch The Match Alone On Tv Than Arm-wrestle His Opponents.

But There Is Nothing Idealized Or Romantic About The Difference Between A Society Whose Arrangements Roughly Serve All Its Citizens (something Otherwise Known As Social Justice) And One Whose Institutions Have Been Converted Into A Stupendous Fraud. That Can Be The Difference Between Democracy And Plutocracy.

I Like What I Do And Keep Thinking The Best Is Yet To Come.

Democracy Belongs To Those Who Exercise It.

It's Very Difficult To Measure The Impact On Policy Of Any Investigative Journalism. You Hope It Matters To Let A Little More Truth Loose In The World, But You Can't Always Be Sure It Does. You Do It Because There's A Story To Be Told. I Can Tell You That The Job Of Trying To Tell The Truth About People Whose Job It Is To Hide The Truth Is About As Complicated And Difficult As Trying To Hide It In The First Place.