Donald Trump is behaving in an extremely provocative way toward China, having first cancelled the TPP and alienated America's friends in the region. Same thing that he's authorizing much riskier gambits against ISIS, having alienated many of America's allies and friends in the region.

A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.

Canada has a real civil service, which the United States doesn't have, an independent civil service. Canada also has a stronger federal system.

In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.

The five million people who watch cable news are the political nation, the people who really care.

If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you.

I am not a person of the left. But one of the things, the central idea of democracy is that you have a bigger investment in the system as a whole than you do in any particular outcome.