You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

The intelligence community is so vast that more people have top secret clearance than live in Washington. The U.S. will spend more on the war in Afghanistan this year, adjusting for inflation, than we spent on the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War and the Spanish-American War combined.

I think when hundreds of thousands of lives are on the line, you might have to set aside some principles.

Isn't it time to talk not only about weather, but also about climate?

Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did... In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring in substantial sums that could be used to pay for schools, libraries or early childhood education.

The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month