We are a people of improbable hope.

Know that America is a friend of each nation and every man, woman, and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity...[For] we are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth.

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan.

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

Families across America are feeling the pinch as they watch debts mount, bills pile up and savings disappear.

Mandela's commitment to democracy was ratified not only by his election, but by his willingness to step down from power

Jimmy Carter will go down in American history as 'the president who lost Iran,'