Barack Obama: “These funds will assist Afghans and Iraqis in protecting and sustaining their infrastructure and building their capacity…”

It is a decision about how do we face and embrace this finite amount of time we have on the planet.

A drift towards extremism was "not inevitable

The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president.

Because if this becomes the new normal, there’s no reason to believe it will stop with her — or that future presidents, in either party, won’t do the same.