I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.

I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.

Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet.

I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.

Anybody can be ambitious.

I'm the kind of person that needs to think things through. But when I know what I want to do, I really know.