"The tragedy of so many children being born into exile should be reason enough to make far greater efforts to prevent and end conflict and violence."

"The loophole in our Constitution's ban on slavery not only allowed slavery to continue, but launched an era of discrimination and mass incarceration that continues to this day," said Sen. Jeff Merkley.

"The current heatwave and drought leave no doubt, we are living the dangerous effects of the climate crisis."

"For too long our education system has been intertwined with the criminal legal system and the results have been tragic."

"We must keep up our fight to repeal the 2001 AUMF so that no future president has the unilateral power to plunge us into endless wars," said Rep. Barbara Lee.

Climate campaigners welcomed the ruling as a victory.

"This deal is a disaster in the making, and it must be rejected."

"We hope that state legislatures finally get the message," said the ACLU, which has filed lawsuits challenging anti-trans legislation.

"Some things can't be replaced."

"Finally, USDA will close the loophole allowing factory farms to produce 'organic' eggs and chicken."

If we ban anything, it shouldn’t be Critical Race Theory—it should be school vouchers.

A new and global Cold War with China is among the last things that humanity needs.

Social scientists have repeatedly demonstrated that white people who hold such views are also likely to hold negative views of other nonwhite U.S. populations, including Latinos, immigrants, Muslim Americans and Asian Americans.

A major component of the latest manifestation of racism is that white people are its victims.

America is stabbing itself in the back.

Trump's legacy will be not that he overthrew the clerical government or made it beg him for a new treaty, but that he put the previously unpopular hard liners in the catbird seat.