The road to some of the darkest moments of history have been paved with the rants of petty demagogues against ethnic minorities for centuries.

I was raised poor, in a tenement building in Union City, New Jersey, the son of Cuban immigrants.

You can have a Second Amendment right, but not a Second Amendment right to an AR-15.

The principles of fairness and equality for working men and women are deeply interwoven within the fabric of our nation's history.

I never ever paid attention to any election.

I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that.

Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system.

Constant pressure by Turkish consulates across the United States, as well as pervasive and continual harassment by the government in Turkey, has so far failed to stifle my dissent. As they increase the pressure, I raise my voice.