What is certainly true is that the United States has to have a presence to promote the values that we care about.

Keeping the people's government open is not a concession to me. Keeping vital service running and hundreds of thousands of Americans on the job is not something you 'give' to the other side.

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

If you're a progressive, you've got to be worried about how the federal government is spending its revenue, because we don't have enough money to spend on things like early childhood education that are so important.

What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return

The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.

Presidential elections always turn on personalities, they turn on how campaigns are run, they turn on natural desires for change.