“In the years just after 9/11, even being breathed on by a suspected te...” — Matt Taibbi Quote

In the years just after 9/11, even being breathed on by a suspected terrorist could land you in extralegal detention for the rest of your life.

There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because juries can't understand the complexity of the financial schemes involved. But in 'U.S.A. v. Carollo,' that turned out not to be true.

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.

I was in detention a lot.

I spent some time in juvenile detention, and as far as owning space, I may have owned too much space as a young boy, and it got me in trouble. But through that, I found some unity. I found acting, and that's become a place to exercise that.

The global movement of displaced people, many of whom end up in detention without hope, is one of the most pressing issues of our times.

When I was younger, I had pink underneath my hair, and I got detention. I went to an all-girls school where you wore a uniform, and pink hair was not OK.

I was something of a prankster. One time I put a ski mask on my head and used a fake gun on the school secretary so that I could get some of my friends out of detention.