On rebels, the powerful and otherwise -- Taking a stand in 2016 -- Barack Obama's (unkept) promise -- Two Bushes, two wars : don't trust them if they send you to war -- Fidel Castro : treat a dictator like a dictator -- The power of "no" : lessons from Cuban dissidents -- Hugo Chávez : I am not the devil -- The one who loses is the one who tires first : Leopoldo López and Lilian Tintori -- Carlos Salinas de Gortari : Mexico's favorite villain -- Dilemmas of a masked guerrilla : Subcomandante Marcos -- Enrique Peña Nieto : saving Mexico? -- Álvaro Uribe : the irascible survivor -- The cost of rebellion : the case of Ingrid Betancourt -- Daniel Ortega, or the revolution that left everything the same -- Money isn't everything : what the super-rich can teach us : Bill Gates, Richard Branson, and Jorge Pérez -- Don't let them discriminate against you : Sonia Sotomayor -- Spike Lee and doing the right thing -- Do your homework--lessons from three great journalists : Barbara Walters, Oriana Fallaci, and Elena Poniatowska -- Devoting your life to a dream : Benjamin Netanyahu and Hanan Ashrawi -- Know that you will win : Desmond Tutu -- America's DREAMers : the first step is losing your fear -- Final lessons : what I learned from thirty years of interviews -- Author's speech to the Committee to Protect Journalists, New York, November 24, 2014.