Barack Obama: “I am grateful they have chosen to dedicate their talents to serving the American people.”

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.

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.

never talks that way when they are in the same room.

I was a little tall for it.