I actually have great hopes for the future.

Donald Trump's temperament and character is precisely what you would hate to see in your children, much less your president.

I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate.

There's nothing wrong with creating jobs. What's wrong is to seed the illusion that you will magically bring back the economy of 1970, that you will reopen coal mines.

A huge constituency, such as Hispanics, is not 100 percent Democratic.

Donald Trump appoints people of low quality, to say the least.

The only reason the word "brand" gets a little tiresome is that something that is complex and wonderful and deep begins to sound like a can of tomato soup. I recoil at that, but I'm used to it. I know what it means: It means that The New Yorker is not merely the magazine that comes out in print once a week. It's the Web site, it's the festival, it's our mobile application - all these things - and what they stand for and what they mean.