I want to focus on what are called kitchen table issues. You know, the ones that keep you up at night, like the cost of childcare and college and prescription drugs and so much else.

Barack Obama is an incredibly intelligent, thoughtful, decisive person in pursuing the agenda he sets.

Most of the movies about the future show aliens descending from outer space determined to blow up the world, and somehow they always begin or end with Washington D.C.

Our global future depends on the willingness of every nation to invest in its people, especially women and children.

The word gap leads to an achievement gap and has life-long consequences

The tax code rewards corporations for outsourcing jobs, and their profits overseas, instead of investing here in the United States.

Let's stop for a second and remember where we were eight years ago [in 2008]. We had the worst financial crisis, the Great Recession, the worst since the 1930s. That was in large part because of tax policies that slashed taxes on the wealthy, failed to invest in the middle class, took their eyes off of Wall Street, and created a perfect storm.