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.

Many of us get our news from social networks, blogs, and daily aggregators.

Mostly what I'm focused on is finding people who are younger who haven't built companies before but have a good idea.

I think there's an important difference between the newspaper and a magazine. I view the role of the magazine as providing the deeper reporting and the thoughtful analysis to help you make sense of why that news is important.

The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time.

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

I really want to move away from the old model in which you have to rely on people giving $10 after a humanitarian crisis to a newer model where people give money but also their time and their skills, whatever they have, to the causes that are personally meaningful to them well before the crisis moment presents itself.