Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

History is replete with examples of moments in time when we talk about deficit reduction and try to advance on it around the world, that is, where it leads to job losses, not job creation.

How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?

Democrats, too often, take blacks for granted, and Republicans, too often, simply ignore black voters.

This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.

Loving your enemy is a radical concept.

In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.