Dick Durbin: “To our newest citizens: you now carry both the rights and the responsibilities of this democracy, and I'm counting on…”

Public executions have no place in a democracy.

For decades, America has stood as the bastion of freedom against tyranny, and American presidents have embodied our nation’s resistance to tyrants. Putin is a tyrant.

Transferring immigrants to Guantánamo Bay is simply unlawful, and worse yet, inhumane.

These authorities require you to apply economic pressure on Russia and the chief enablers of its war, in particular China, and thereby enhance your negotiating position to bring a swift end to this ruinous conflict.