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Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries.

The Pentagon Papers case stands today as a barrier to silence by official edict.

Is it 'left' to insist that presidents and CIA directors adhere to the law? I don't think so. I think it's American.

Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to raise their voices at injustice.

We have learned by now, or should have, that the best-intended designers of aid programs can make ghastly mistakes in their sophisticated plans.

I am an optimist about America.

The First Amendment is very important, but it's not everything.

I was covering the Supreme Court when it decided Gideon v. Wainright, and the case has always had special meaning for me.

I'm a pro-capitalist, middle-of-the-road, tepid centrist.

With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.

Faith in reason was the foundation stone of the United States.

There are values of humanity, culture, beauty, community that may require deviations from the cold logic of market theory.