The same would be true for something like Social Security, where historically, if you just read the law and the fact that it excluded domestic workers or agricultural workers, you might not see race in it, unless you knew that that covered a huge chunk of African Americans, particularly in the South.

Honestly this is not going to change unless the people who want to prevent these kinds of mass shootings from taking place feel at least as passionate, at least as mobilized and well-funded as the NRA and the gun manufacturers are because the politics in Congress are such where even members of Congress who know better are fearful if they vote their conscience and support common sense measures like background checks, they're worried they're going to lose.

National legislation will prevent other states' flawed concealed-weapons laws from threatening the safety of Illinois residents.

My core goal is to dismantle, defeat, destroy al Qaeda and its allies that killed Americans and are still plotting to go kill Americans.

Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them.

We'll build new ties of trade and of commerce, culture and education that unleash the potential of the Iraqi people.

There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.