In 2007 the 'dagger' of an idea that killed President Bush's effort at reforming the immigration system was lax border security.

The 2012 presidential campaign's turn away from the classic, straight-up, American election - where the candidate who gets the most votes nationwide wins - is another sad reminder of the extreme political polarization distorting today's politics. No one talks about a 50-state strategy for winning the presidency these days.

Gun-related violence and murders are concentrated among blacks and Latinos in big cities.

I think that you have a situation where one political party, in specific, if you watched the Republican debate, it's all about terrorism.

The Democrats thought that Hillary Clinton is too aggressive and too much into regime change.

Beyond budget fights, the Obama second-term agenda was supposed to be about passing comprehensive immigration reform.

I've always thought the Right-wing were ones that were inflexible and intolerant ,and now I'm coming to realize that the orthodoxy at NPR, it's representing the Left.