When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.

You can't have someone with a pinkie out there at the U.N. or any other place.

Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe.

There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better.

Politicians in Washington work in a small, sheltered world where they lurch from crisis to crisis that they create, nurture and use as ideological triggers in their selfish pursuit of re-election.

One of the hallmarks of higher education and of democracy is the ability to converse with people with whom we disagree.

Our government makes the simple promise of a secure retirement to every American who works for many years and contributes to our retirement benefit system.

Thanks in part to the Patriot Act, the federal government has been able to demand some details of your online activities from service providers - and not to tell you about it.