Barack Obama: “I support efforts to negotiate lower United States and Russian nuclear weapons levels, to reduce Russia's tactical…”

There’s no doubt that we are going through a period right now of disruption, polarization.

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.

We’ve now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, you know, put enormous strain on our military. A lot of people have died. And it feels like we’re back where we were before we started the war, except maybe a little bit worse…

The success of this experiment was never a given.