Kirsten Powers

Leading up to Election Day 2008, candidate Barack Obama declared, 'We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.' Conservatives heard a menacing threat. For liberals, it was a rallying cry. The battle was on.

Whereas Hillary is continually reinventing herself and her campaign, throwing things against the wall to see what sticks, Sanders appears to be driven by core values. He's running because he wants to upend a broken system. She's running because she thinks it's her turn.

I know I deal with it, I'm sure a lot of other people deal with it: you have that little funny dig you want to give on Twitter or you want to put in your column. Don't do it. it always undermines your argument.

Military action is, of course, sometimes necessary to maintain peace. Kosovo and World War II are good examples.

It's true that Americans are less than thrilled with President Obama and congressional Democrats. Their approval ratings are nothing to celebrate. But electoral politics is a zero-sum game. If one side loses, then the other side wins. Success depends on being just slightly less odious than your opponent.

Domestic policy, foreign policy, I tend to come down more on the liberal side.

If conservatives are so concerned about black-on-black crime, it is concerning the only time I hear them talking about it is when they want to stick it to the black community.

Did you know there is a war on women? Yes, it's true. Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Bill Maher, Matt Taibbi, and Ed Schultz have been waging it for years with their misogynist outbursts.

All my friends were liberals and I grew up in a really liberal family.

Hypocrisy, something Jesus railed against, has become perhaps the most prominent feature of the religious right in the Trump era.

American Christians are quite able to organize around issues that concern them. Yet religious persecution appears not to have grabbed their attention, despite worldwide media coverage of the atrocities against Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East.

I grew up in the Episcopal Church in Alaska, but my belief was superficial and flimsy.