Ronald Reagan was a dim hack who did horrible damage to almost everything he touched.

There is a lot in American politics (and in American life) that is angry, greedy, reckless and violent.

Campaigns are no longer high-minded exchanges of ideas, even though God knows we need more good ones - ideas, that is.

It's better to be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother.

We have a revolutionary history to honor and uphold. Which was what Nelson Mandela did. He reminded us of that which we need to be reminded, over and over again, about our own best selves.

If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance does not become wisdom just because you gussy it up with the Gospels.

Every president learns on the job because nobody`s really prepared for the kind of decisions that cross your desk every day. No one`s prepared for that. No vice president who has scended to the presidency has ever truly been ready for that. Certainly, no vice president who`s assumed the presidency in extremis, like Harry Truman, has been ready for that. But this Trump guy doesn`t seem to be ready for a career in government.