If you feel more at home with people who share your political ideology than with people who share your religion, then politics might be your religion.

Those committed to re-founding America as a just and inclusive democracy need to defeat the things we don’t like by building the things we do.

We’re being overwhelmed on a weekly basis by a relentlessly heavy news cycle, making the dripping of bad news feel more like a thunderstorm.

“If we face America’s racial history squarely, will it mean that the American project is a failure? Conversely, if we think the American project is a worthy endeavor, do we have to lie, downplay, or equivocate about our past?”