It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late for America.
We have to realize that ISIS and Islamic terrorists are not only a threat to America. They are a threat to all of Western society.
White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.
If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America.
In America, mixed-race identity tends to invite both curiosity and suspicion, largely because few have found a way to interrogate it without centering whiteness as the scale by which to evaluate blackness.
Geeks are a critical driver of America's innovation ecosystem, from the entrepreneurs launching startups in Silicon Valley to the scientists experimenting in university research labs to the whiz kids building gadgets in their parents' garages.
Whoever you are, this is America. You can believe or do whatever you want.
You make America great by making America available to a wide variety of people.
To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.
I was born in Cambridge but brought up in and around Winchester, in Hampshire. I've also lived in Hong Kong and America.
Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.
I would much rather America was a more stable, wonderful place. You know, I love it.
In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north.
Our concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs.
I just knew that I wanted world domination. I knew that with anything I do, I want to be the greatest. That entails being great everywhere. Not just in America - everywhere.
America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy.
As a world leader, America must be prepared to confront any challenge.
America is a world leader, one that gives guidance to others.
Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats.
Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride the world stage and Washington worries about decline, it seems to be, 'Who lost America?'