In The Little Town Where I Live

Clearly, There Has Been A Lack Of Imagination About How Much Can Go Wrong.

When People Get To Speak About Themselves And The Things That Matter To Them, On Their Own Terms, We See Them As Who They Are. They Can't Be Reduced To Objects Of Derision.

One Of The Manifestations Of Depression For Me Is That I Lose My Will. And I Thereby Lose My Ability To Focus. I Don't Think I'll Ever Have The Day-to-day Consistency In My Performance That Something Like This American Life Has. If I'm Not Depressed And I'm On And I Can Focus And I Can Think Through Something Hard And Without Interruption And Without Existential Emptiness That Comes From Depression, That Gives Me - Not Mania. But I Exalt. I Exalt In Not Being Depressed.

News About The Russia Connections To The [donald Trump] Administration And What We Are Continuing To Learn About Those Connections. What`s Getting To Be, I Think, Particularly Unsettling Is That Simultaneously We Are Right Now What`s Going On, I Think, Is That We Are Number One Nailing Down More Direct Connections Between The Trump Campaign And The Russian Government At The Time The Russian Government Was Influencing Our Election.

My Idea Of What Was Going On In Politics Was Driven By Activism. I Came Out When I Was 17, And Right Away I Started Working In The Aids Activist Movement. For Me, Politics Was About Getting Drugs Approved And Getting Prisoners Access To The Same Kind Of Drugs That You Could Get On The Outside. It Was About Getting Needle Exchanges Approved. That Was Politics. These Were Policy Problems That Were Killing People, And We Were Trying To Get Them Changed.