Sometimes we overemphasize the political system. There are other ways to make a difference. There's technology, there's media, there's business.

People in red states and blue states can agree that we are a nation blessed with extraordinary natural wealth and beauty, which we would be foolish to waste; therefore conservation and efficiency are values we all can share.

I am not, in fact, a superhero. Just a humble, mild-mannered civil rights attorney.

If someone like myself, who is married to a white woman, who has spent my entire life building bridges, can't point out the alt-right whitelash reaction without being accused of being a racial polemecist, we're going to have a big problem.

The bombs the government drops in Iraq are the bombs that blew up in New York City.

Now we stand at our own crossroads, looking out upon two futures: one with rising temperatures, rising oceans, and rising violence on a hot and strip-mined planet and another with expanding organic harvests, growing solar arrays, and deepening global partnerships on a green and thriving Earth.

America cannot be America in the new century until it deals with these new questions of gender, including the trans issues, and the questions around faith and Islam.