Barack Obama won such a big electoral mandate because a lot of people thought he was - transcended partisan and ideological barriers and was going to put aside the old debates. So, he was able to get a lot of moderates and a lot of independents.

The policies of the Democratic Party have always been in cultural consonance with the culture of the working class. And, somehow, they missed that.

For those of us who believe in it, there has to be a movement that says, "We still believe in trade. We still believe in international engagement for America. But for those losers or those who are suffering, we've got your back."

What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.

The legitimacy of a war is not established by how it is organized but by what it achieves.

I was really fortunate that I went to a high school where we actually had a film theory program.

We have rapidly increasing technology, which is making life very good for people who are good at using words, and not so good for people who are not good at using words.