I think there's going to be a tug of war in this country over who are the real patriots because at a time of national crisis, economic collapse and calamity, ecological peril and social dislocation, the American people deserve to be a partner to the American government.

You know it's not "you have to see it to believe it" - sometimes you have to believe it to see it. You have to know what you're looking for when you're seeing signs of an authoritarian takeover of your country.

Will the new environmental leaders fight for eco-equity in this new "green economy" they are birthing?

Progressives are overreacting .Underreacting, though, to the - what the real threats are, and the real opportunities.

Though the rampant racial injustices throughout the criminal justice system were offensive to me and to millions of other people, I've never drawn a tight circle around the black community to define the limits of my moral concern. But that narrative tends to get imposed on you, if you're an African-American activist.

I don't like to comment on a specific local issue because there are plenty of people already working on the problem who know a lot more about it than I do.

When somebody comes along and says, "I think Washington, DC, sucks," that's not wrong.