Public education is so important - resisting privatization and charterization, high-stakes testing, and defunding. It's important for New York, but it's also important for the country.

What I see increasingly is that companies are playing political roles. We should actually have our research and our laws map that.

My current goal is to change the way we think about antitrust and anti-monopoly.

In Europe, populism is sort of a dirty word, but we have this wonderful history of populism in America, including the abolitionist populists and the white and black populists working together in the nineteenth century.

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

Things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth. Politicians might mention renewable energy, and the public will think, "That sounds good, but I don't believe they're going to do everything they can to build those towers."

People think that the politician is just part of a system, and whether they're lying or not doesn't matter.