I think Donald Trump simply needs to make himself look less bigoted, less dangerous, more comfortable to people..

What I am really worried about is that Donald Trump steps outside norms about, for example, what he does about his business. If he holds on to his bu….

Here you had John McCain and Lindsey Graham in a very principled way standing up and defending Barack Obama. You had people like Gene Robinson and a ….

Liberals and conservatives disagree over what are the most important sins. For conservatives, the sins that matter are personal irresponsibility, the….

I actually think there are more Republicans than people realize who would be sympathetic to immigration reform in the rank and file. I think the less….

What's really striking here is that a candidate who ran as the Paladin of the working class who'd deliver them picks a guy who heads a fast-food comp….

In the Trump language, words change their meaning day by day depending on his own political needs..

A nation that hates politics will not long survive as a democracy..

Politically, Donald Trump doesn't seem to care much about what he says. He gauges the effect. Sometimes, in the middle of a speech, he will change hi….

The Democrats want to celebrate their successes but don't want to look out of touch with the people who haven't risen much in the last decade or so r….

At the heart of my argument is the view that religious faith, far from being inevitably on the side of the status quo, should on principle hold this ….

If you really want to change the Trump administration, you have to change the guy at the top. And that's not happening anytime soon. But, again, wher….

What is working in the economy is a natural comeback plus some effects of the policies we've been following. But I'm sort of worried about the long t….

The new culture war is about national identity rather than religion and 'transcendent authority.' It focuses on which groups the United States will f….

You have this all the way through this cabinet so that I think there are a lot of other things to worry about [Donald] Trump. But in conventional pol….

The New York Times had a headline on its website - Trump Turning To Ultra Wealthy To Steer Economic Policy. This doesn't sound very populist to me. T….

Hope is different from optimism. Hope is a tough virtue, not a psychological predisposition. Hope insists on taking facts and reason into account and….

I wish we had more [Dwight] Eisenhower Republicans in this [Donald]Trump cabinet..

Nowhere else in the world do the laws on firearms become the playthings of politicians and lobbyists intent on manufacturing cultural conflict. Nowhe….

I think there are a lot of Americans who are very scared, scared that [Vladimir] Putin manipulated us, worried about Rex Tillerson, the winner of Rus….

We have pursued public policies that kind of hold the recovery back, but the private economy is really starting to roll..