When Donald Trump says women should be punished or Mexicans are rapists and criminals or John McCain's not a hero, he is showing you who he is.

Social security has enabled people to retire with dignity and overwhelmingly not be in poverty. We have to keep it solvent.

Despair is a natural emotion.

In the wake of Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state, where she was the architect of the Obama administration's foreign policy, we see entire portions of the world, particularly the wider Middle East, literally spinning out of control.

In life, success begets success.

Losing a son, losing a daughter, a brother, a sister, losing a close friend - it can go beyond grief to isolation and feeling despair.

My sense is that economic anxiety means electoral volatility.