Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success.

The Gulf War was like teenage sex. We got in too soon and out too soon.

America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.

There's no one silver bullet, but money really is the root of all evil. The single biggest problem is how much more money is flooding into politics these days. It not only tends to enable a more extreme candidate to get elected, but because so much money is required to bankroll a campaign, everyone spends all their free time fundraising instead of reaching across the aisle.

That signal's come and gone a lot in my life-time, that prairie progressivism died . I think prairie progressivism is still there. Every once in a while, odd things take place.

Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system.

Politics is like driving. To go backward put it in R. To go forward put it in D.