At some point he has to show that he has a vision of a better way. He can't just say 'The future is bleak, follow me.' Because no one will.

I don't really care how or why Obama got to the right place on gay marriage. I'm just glad he got there.

Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.

America as we know it will end unless we end Medicare as we know it.

America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage.

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.

My brother is one of my true heroes. Steady and sober where I am impulsive and emotional.