While their fiscal views aren't mine, the moderates are the last reasonable voice in the current Republican Party.

Global warming threatens our health, our economy, our natural resources, and our children's future. It is clear we must act.

I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be.

Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies revisit the way mortgages were marketed to those without adequate skills to understand the products they were being sold. Management would have to change the way things were done.

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!

As one who was a prosecutor for many years, I can tell you that having a tape recording of interrogations would help everybody. It would make clear if there had been improper pressure exerted on a defendant or witness, and it would also protect the interrogating officer from false claims that such pressure had been brought to bear.