When you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu, my friend Lee Saunders has said, and he is correct.

One of the things the Democratic Party is trying to do is take the word off-year out of our lexicon, because we've tended to be an accordion as a party. We expand in the presidentials; we shrink in between; and we scratch our head and wonder why we lose midterms.

Every Democrat, like every American, should support a woman's right to make her own choices about her body and her health. That is not negotiable and should not change city by city or state by state.

It stands to reason: Higher wages means higher loyalty and morale, which means higher productivity, which means a more profitable business.

People believe mistakenly, that with death comes atonement, when in reality, life is for atonement and Death is for Judgment.

Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class.

I believe we're making a mistake if we regard job creation and job safety as mutually exclusive or inherently in conflict; they can and they must go hand-in-hand.