We are spending so much time in studios, and in chairs listening to somebody at a lectern, and if we really understood what Americans were concerned ….

I think what we journalists too often do is we assume the status quo is unchangeable. I think all sorts of issues of political reform, electoral refo….

I can't speak for the news side 'cause I'm on the opinion side. But what I have noticed that the news side has done and, and to be really honest I th….

I remember going to a Trump rally in South Carolina, and it was really important and it was really interesting to talk to the people who'd shown up t….

Shiatsu, deep-tissue or maybe even Rolfing: Which manner of pummeling becomes a cephalopod most?.

[Gore] tended to drone on and on, in singsong, narcotizing cadences best endured by the heavily caffeinated..

After all, a creature without passionate conviction doesn't cling to extremes. He surveys the scenery and makes sure his outfit doesn't clash..

I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they're either allergic to avocado or too joyless to live..

Books are personal, passionate. They stir emotions and spark thoughts in a manner all their own, and I'm convinced that the shattered world has less ….

But fairness is where we’re heading, at least in regard to marriage, which has emerged as the terrain on which Americans are hashing out their feelin….

You're encouraging a response in citizens and the public, that has nothing to do with an informed decision, that has nothing to do with policy, that ….

Even if you're trying to remain objective, even if you're trying not to mount any campaigns or endorse anything, when you cover an issue you are at l….

Another way in which our system is unfair. Why do Iowans get so much of a bigger voice every four years than everybody else? Ditto for New Hampshire.….

If every four years in a presidential election, if you're a New Yorker or a Californian, and you realize that you are so much less important, that no….

The way the electoral college works, the way the states have kind of sorted themselves out in such a way that most states, the conclusion is foregone….

We are constantly bemoaning that we have two nominees, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, who are when you put them together as unpopular a duo as we ….

We've given people both in print and even more so on TV these enormous doses of Donald Trump because people are consuming enormous doses of Donald Tr….

I don't know that it's a lack of creativity so much as it is , a lack of resources. And maybe a little bit of a lack of will but when you look at wha….

In terms of the rise of social media and the kind of discourse that it encourages, the kind of pointed attitude it encourages, in terms of the number….

If you look at why do we end up with the nominees that we get often? It's because you have only a very small number of Americans participating in the….

In some perfect world where human nature is less messy and history less fraught, any and all people who had ever suffered discrimination would find c….