Elections have a way of cooling passions, especially when voters get what they want.

There are no 'come shoot me' clothes.

I know a bigot when I see a bigot.

I was always a relatively quiet and introspective kid.

When I was a freshman in college, I went to a broadcast class by mistake. The first day, the instructor said, "Television anchors sound like they could be from everywhere and nowhere." From that point on, every time I was near an anchor, when no one was around, they would say something and I would say it right after them. It was this effort to get rid of my accent.

Being a world leader is less about destiny than focused determination, and it is there that we have faltered.

An illustration is a visual editorial - its just as nuanced. Everything that goes into it is a call you make: every color, every line weight, every angle.