As an expectant mom who is currently self-employed, I'm amazed at just how tied to the workplace maternity benefits are.

As a matter of personal philosophy, I have generally said, 'Why not?' far more often than either 'Why?' or 'Not.'

We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us, Vined. Calling out grievances over Twitter has become an industry norm.

The road system that we've come to depend on, the road system that we built our wealth on and our power on, is falling apart.

My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.

The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.

We want democracy and peace.

Conservatives believe in smaller government and in the power of the electorate. So I think that we're less likely to try to use a dramatic forum to warp people's political views.