As proud and capable as it is, I think the idea that the military can build new countries is a tall order, and it's the sort of thing that we would only expect from a military that we have superresourced and thought of as supercapable.

Francois Hollande is the president of France. He got all sorts of accolades for his leadership in France after the Paris attacks.

Senator [Tom] Cotton has campaigned on wanting to kill Obamacare. He voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act back in January, but he now says, despite these marathon all-night sessions going on in the House, Republicans need to do better, they need to start over, they need to come up with something that the Senate says will actually reduce prices for insurance and keep it affordable.

If you want to make the government take a religious side, then make the case, it should be Christian republic.

I have a file of letters and bits of ephemera from friends who have died. I have had lots of friends who died of AIDS.

I'm hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.

The idea of the Overton Window of using people on the political fringe to change the terms of acceptable debate, that`s an idea that`s been hugely influential in conservative politics since Joseph P. Overton thought it up, making radical ideas seem acceptable by advocating for the unthinkable.