I Was A Finalist For The Pulitzer

We've Had The Trivialization Of Our Politics Going On Ever Since We Had Electronic Media.

The Issue I Highlight In The Book Is Welfare Reform.

Eisenhower Provided The First Break In The Cold War, By Bringing Khrushchev To The United States, In Humanizing The Soviets; And Then Nixon, By Making The Opening To China; And Then Reagan, Even Meeting In Reykjavik With Gorbachev And Acknowledging That Nuclear Weapons Are A Horror. So I Won't Accept That Republicans Just Escalate. Republicans, At Least When They Were More Moderate, They Were Maybe Even More Isolationist, They Sometimes Brought Sanity To The Debate. We Don't Have That Now. We Have - All These Republicans Have Gone Off The Neoconservative Deep End.

I Was A Finalist For The Pulitzer As A Reporter.

And New People Come In, And It Doesn't Go Along With Their Politics, And They Fire Me, End The Column, Silence A Voice In Los Angeles. They Can't Silence It Nationally, But They Are Able To Do It There.