Barack Obama: “All people deserve to live free from fear, violence, and discrimination, regardless of who they are or whom they love.”

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.

I am very happy to see a ceasefire. And I’m hopeful that it holds.

In forming our union, the founders fell terribly short of the Declaration's promise, leaving slavery intact, allowing states to restrict the franchise to white men who owned property.

The success of this experiment was never a given.