I tend to be a kind of left federalist. There's a value to more power of certain kinds being positioned at a more local level.

I think part of the reason the Tea Party has resonated is that people feel disempowered. The Tea Party says, "You are out of power because of big government." Then some Democrats tend to respond by saying, "No, you're wrong, you're not out of power." It's a sense that doesn't resonate with people's lived experience.

Because jurors have an extraordinary amount of power over the situation and of the people and the story in front of them, they tend to pay pretty intense attention to what's happening.

New York City is one of the most vulnerable cities in the world to climate change, so I see Keystone as the central threat to New York.

A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the secret language of politics.

This is what's so hard about our current politics: things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth.

It's a lot harder to push forward things, like energy policy. There's a big dream out there about wind and solar power.