The recent election demonstrated that the GOP needs to modernize not so much an enduring message, but the media through which they are carried. The same good ol’ boy network of incompetence, arrogantly downplaying the digital side of campaigning, needs to be swept out of leadership if they are unwilling to adapt to a modern era of communication...

When I was a kid, I was told as I visited the observatory on fieldtrips that people—humans—are unable to fathom the depths of space, the distance between stars, and the sheer enormity of it all. I was also told that a person could count to a billion in about 30-40 years, assuming that they had 24 hours a day to do so. Now try 1 trillion.

“I, President Barack Obama, take it upon myself the grave responsibility to which you have entrusted me, and pledge to strive to reach across party lines. We are not red America, and we are not blue America. Out of many, we are one...