If you have never been tortured, or locked up and verbally threatened, you may find it hard to believe that anyone would confess to something he had not done. Intuition holds that the innocent do not make false confessions. — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
If you stand with the Customs and Border Protection officers who staff the passport booths at Dulles airport near the nation's capital, their task seems daunting. — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties. — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
“The law is too important to be left to the lawyers, to paraphrase Georges Clemenceau about war and generals. We laymen know too little… — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction… — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
Workers on the edge of poverty are essential to America’s prosperity, but their well-being is not treated as an integral part of the whole.… — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
Obama prefers to look forward, not back, as he has stated. So at least during his tenure, there will be no reliable record compiled… — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
Caricatures created by politics never fit comfortably into the Oval Office. — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
Eisenhower was less deferential to the military than he seemed likely to be, Kennedy was not at all beholden to the pope, George W.… — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
Here among the constant ruins and rebuilding of civilizations lies the coexistence of diversity and intolerance. — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure. — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
“The day I arrived in Yakutsk with my colleague Peter Osnos of The Washington Post, it was 46 below. When our plane landed, the… — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand… — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents toward the center on both foreign and domestic policy, no matter where on the political spectrum… — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
