Donald Trump's being authentic to what he ran on and what got elected.

We still are America though. We're still a country that is a country of social mobility. We're still a country of immigrants. We're still a country with common ancestors. And reviving the civics of America and the idea that we're going to be united, at least not right now, but in some common future, and talking in that hopeful way that Martin Luther King did, that Abraham Lincoln did, seems to me that's the way.

Britain is blessed with a functioning political culture. It is dominated by people who live in London and who have often known each other since prep school. This makes it gossipy and often incestuous.

People tend to marry people with similar-width noses, eyes similarly apart, with complementary immune systems.

President-elect [Donald] Trump's ambassador to Israel is further to the right than almost anyone in Israel, further to the right than Bibi Netanyahu on the settlements, and almost opposes the two-state solution, doesn't he?

It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.

The ugliness can sometimes be super ugly, but also a warning sign of something down below.