Barack Obama: “We can reduce our over-reliance on the juvenile and criminal justice systems and build stronger pathways to opportunity.”

I thought this was the South Side of Chicago.

Now the ball’s in your court, Iowa.

People aren't looking for perpetual anger and division. They are looking for fairness and common sense and mutual respect, that deep in our gut, we want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away.

At least one of our major parties has been captured by politics that is not that subtle about suggesting that ‘We the people’ means a certain kind of people.