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

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

We're all better off...when we're all better off.

America is exceptional: but because it yields the likes of Obama, not the likes of Bush.

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 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.

A basic assumption shapes most Americans’ mindset about labor: the belief that the death of unions isn’t my problem because I’m not in a union. That assumption is wrong. Even if you aren’t a member, your pay is influenced by the strength or weakness of organized labor. The presence of unions sets off a wage race to the top. Their absence sets off a race to the bottom.