The great enemy of any totalitarian regime is normalization and trade.

What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.

The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.

We've had the trivialization of our politics going on ever since we had electronic media.

I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.

Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money.

Alternative media is no longer really alternative, and we're no longer that dependant upon newspapers, like the Los Angeles Times, for our information.

It had run as a column - I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it.

When Howard Dean started saying some honest things, they hung him.

If the war on terror is endless, you could forget about democracy.

Today anyone on the Internet can find out more about what you read, think, and earn than the secret police of Stalin or Hitler could have learned.

She had been desperate to feel something, anything. She needed a window, because she had broken her heart throwing it at locked doors.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

We have strong statistical evidence that shows that transgender people are twice as likely as their fellow citizens to join the military, to have served in the military.

The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into the ooze of androgyny and narcissism.

Dogs love to go for rides. A dog will happily get into any vehicle going anywhere.

I feel like I don't have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have.

It is a river of ideas from which I fish out sounds that make my soul happy.

Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption.

Let my enemies devour each other.

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.