Democrats love to criticize Republicans on guns, but they are generally mute when it comes to taking on Hollywood or the gaming industry.

It's much more powerful and compelling to create a positive vision than it is to tear somebody down.

Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the Iranian hostage crisis, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, the downing of the helicopter in Mogadishu, Somalia, the suicide attack on the USS Cole, and, of course, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

I've spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms.

Reasonable people can reasonably disagree on policy.

A Rick Santorum presidency would be very, very dangerous for America.

If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then ours is truly a civilization lost.