As the mother of a son with disabilities, I try to keep an eye out for news that affects people in the large community of which he is a part.

AFSCME stands for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.

Some days you feel like you've had the greatest ego massage, then the next day you've been trampled on.

Young people realize that something is amiss. There's a generation that fell in love with their phones, and it's very hard for them to see that there's a problem. But young people are desperate for the attention of their parents, who are really not paying attention to them.

I think that Election Day is the closest thing we have to a civic sacrament, when people meet their neighbors at the firehouse or the school and they vote at the same time.

Vaclav Havel was a really popular leader. He couldn't believe that he was really there. I mean, he still dressed in black T-shirts and jeans and was very kind of '60s. And he began to realize the seriousness of it. And he knew how to strategize. And he had a very keen political sense, but he didn't want to be like the old communist leaders.

CD4 being the level of the lymphocyte that indicates the level of your immune function.