It's the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there's still hope.

What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.

The delusional is no longer marginal.

In America, one of our two major parties is dominated by extremists dedicated to destroying the social contract, and the other party has been so enfeebled by two decades of collaboration with the donor class it can offer only feeble resistance to the forces that are devastating everyday people.

The struggle of ordinary people for a decent living, for security, is as old as the republic, but it's taken on a new and urgent edge. Instead of shared prosperity our political system has now produced a winner-take-all economy.

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

Democracy works when people claim it as their own