Will we forget why we need freedom of the press?

Few of us believe in concepts as basic as civic obligation and voter participation anymore. The rituals and responsibilities of living in a republic bore us. Although we're awash in more information technology than citizens of any democracy in history, we choose to conduct our political lives as willing inmates of an idiocracy.

--TonyNorman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (5/4/12)

Is democracy a process of domination or cooperation?

“You can't get cooperation to serve the national interest when one side of the divide sees no distinction between the national interest and its own partisan triumph.” 

                –Paul Krugman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (5/5/2012)