For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.

The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public.

No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.

And how the government communicates about homeland security is central to how the public responds.

I am a recovering alcoholic.

Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.

People are going to keep getting prescribed medication that is counter to what their real disease state is, which is addiction.