When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good. But what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.

The first thing I had to start with was, you know, we don't have a war. We don't have a depression, we don't have a Cold War.

Throughout the Middle East, there is a great yearning for the quiet miracle of a normal life.

Sharing in God's blessings is at the heart of Thanksgiving and at the core of the American spirit.

Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.

The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in the pretense of religious or political conviction, are no different. They have nearly destroyed us in the past. They plague us still. They fuel the fanaticism of terror. They torment the lives of millions in fractured nations around the world. These obsessions cripple both those who are hated and, of course, those who hate, robbing both of what they might become.

If you take advantage of the fact that technology abolishes distance, then you won't need to go to India. Just go to Indiana.