| Jul 13, 2016 | Rights / DemocracyWhen I heard about the police shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, I thought back to another name etched into American history: Dred Scott. In 1857, the Supreme Court was tasked with deciding whether Scott, an African American man born into slavery,...
| Feb 24, 2016 | Rights / DemocracyAntonin Scalia is gone. The nastiest and noisiest of right wingers on the Supreme Court is dead. But in a blatantly partisan ploy to prevent President Barack Obama from nominating a successor to Scalia, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has cited a brand new...
| Feb 17, 2016 | Rights / DemocracyMy mother always told me never to speak ill of the dead. For that reason I won’t go on at length about Antonin Scalia, the recently departed Supreme Court justice. My opinion wouldn’t be worth that much anyway. I didn’t know the man — I was never even in the...
| Nov 18, 2015 | UncategorizedI sometimes say the government turned me into a dissident — after I spent 14 years at the CIA and two more at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. I only say it half-jokingly. While I’m proud of winning this year’s PEN Center’s First Amendment award, I never...
