I got my start in lefty journalism as a labor reporter at 'In These Times', and it's in my blood.

If you want to defend torture, well then go ahead. But please spare me any sermons about the law ever again.

We're in an historic drought, and that demands unprecedented action.

We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. This is the America in which we currently reside.

Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.

California became the last state in the west to regulate groundwater usage. The state's first-ever mandatory water restrictions soon followed.

We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities. The consequences of this simple, devastating realization define American life.

Donald Trump is not going anywhere. And we see as calculated as these are, he has a knack for telling a certain segment of a base what they want.

Climate change is the biggest governing challenge we face. It's the biggest governing challenge I think we've ever faced.

The backlash to [Sarah] Palin's comments was swift, with veterans and veterans' groups criticizing the apparent politicization of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Inequality and hierarchy are natural, but that doesn't mean they are right, that doesn't mean there is isn't a productive tension between those forces and the forces of equality.

A tree fears an axe even though its handle is made from it.

Nothing truly dies. All energy simply transforms.

The past is but the beginning of a beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

Being dead is one way to experience nothing, another is to attend some classes at my school.

Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist.

No, Sherlock doesn't need another brain. But he could benefit from an extra heart.

No longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from.

The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it.

I do think it's dangerous when you are overly secularizing, and sometimes you get very smart, and sometimes [you] gain a lot of smarts, but you lose a lot of wisdom.