Democratic institutions, even in the oldest operating democracy in the world, are anything but perfect.
The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.
Disaster can take a nation by surprise, slowly, and then all at once.
I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one.
Donald Trump appoints people of low quality, to say the least.
I think the Electoral College is an absurd 18th-century construct. But that is the law.