To love country means to rise above I am because I am. It is to recognize that I am because we are.

We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions.

The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits.

The boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay young forever or to stop aging. But it is possible by committing to show up for each others in community after community, to earn a measure of immortality.

Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights.

True patriots measure themselves not by personal wealth or power but by the degree to which they contribute to the community.

In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.