Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to….

I use social media every day. I don't have a Twitter account, but not because I'm a dinosaur about it. I have enough of a platform here. People in my….

Donald Trump's temperament and character is precisely what you would hate to see in your children, much less your president..

I know from my conversations with people in the administration that every world leader that Obama met in Berlin, in Peru, in Athens was extremely ala….

Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what's more, the population will hardly protest the extinctio….

I got in journalism for any number of reasons, not least because it's so much fun. Journalism should be in the business of putting pressure on power,….

A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. ….

The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known..

I don't know that Donald Trump is anything more to Putin than what Lenin called a poleznye durak, a useful idiot..

Being an editor it's a complicated job, but the last impression I'd want anybody to have is that it's onerous. It's a joy - a complicated joy, but a ….

I think the Electoral College is an absurd 18th-century construct. But that is the law..

We have to do our jobs better, more tirelessly and stop whining about it..

I would also like to see Russia not interfere in our elections..

I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited man….

We should put pressure on power and write the truth and write relentlessly and fearlessly. That's the job..

I am an adult; deliberately naïve, dewy-eyed optimism is not the proper posture for a responsible adult, is it?.

The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to jolt the complacent..

The only reason to be in business is to be great..

I think we should be alarmed, watchful, and, as journalists, rigorous and fearless. I think we should be alert..

The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The car….

I know, too, that millions and millions of people voted for Trump not because they are cartoon racists, but because they did not like Hillary Clinton….