The habit of going to your congressman's town hall and asking questions, that's powerful in a way that shouting slogans or getting arrested is not, that is completely counterproductive.

The Iraq fight itself is probably going to go very, very fast. The shooting should be over within just a very few days from when it starts.

Donald Trump's big goal is to become the richest man in the world, abusing the powers of the presidency.

A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.

I don't think that disasters have to be spectacular. They can be a slow corrosion.

People who watch a lot of Fox come away knowing a lot less about important world events.

I was in the White House, probably the only administration I'll ever work for. The administration was not a success, neither at home nor abroad. The Iraq War was not a success. The condition of the average person was not enough better at the end of seven years of George Bush than it was at the beginning, and certainly it all ended in the collapse that was the Great Recession. So I feel a sense of karmic obligation to the universe because of that.