We have to do our jobs better, more tirelessly and stop whining about it.

The internet is very democratizing in some ways, but it also has other effects.

I use social media every day. I don't have a Twitter account, but not because I'm a dinosaur about it. I have enough of a platform here. People in my position who do it tend to use it in a promotional way or in a hamstrung way. I look at Twitter all the time as a news tool or for cultural conversation. I've used it in my reporting. It's very useful.

My deep sense of alarm has to do with Donald Trump's seeming lack of fealty to constitutionalism.

The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.

Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.

The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.