...And it leaks today in the middle of the Democratic national Convention?

I assume they will vote -- with some Democratic votes, but mostly not -- to conduct this inquiry, ... as long as the Republicans are intent on a partisan witch hunt there is going to be no consensus.

If the flag needs protection at all, it needs protection from members of Congress who value the symbol more than the freedoms that the flag represents.

Thousands die each year because they are uninsured or under-insured.

Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.

We do not need torture as an available instrument of interrogation.

Torture fails to make us safe, but it certainly makes us less free.

We have to go to war against the people who enable the gun violence, the people who stop us from keeping guns out of the hands of mentally unstable people, of felons, and that means the NRA leadership.

Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.

The forces that have worked hard to stoke populist anger against reform are the very ones that benefit from a health system which puts profits ahead of quality care for its patients.