Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.

To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus.

Teen pregnancy went way down in the '90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.

We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross-border, religiously motivated terrorism is new.

In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest. That's bad news for everyone else - and for our democracy itself.

Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.