I know, too, that millions and millions of people voted for Trump not because they are cartoon racists, but because they did not like Hillary Clinton for a variety of reasons, because they had real economic and social grievances.

I don't know that Donald Trump is anything more to Putin than what Lenin called a poleznye durak, a useful idiot.

The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to jolt the complacent.

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

I would also like to see Russia not interfere in our elections.

There are days when you might enjoy being an editor a little less, due to one crisis or another. It is absolutely vital, to me, in a period of technological evolution and sometimes financial stress that I and my colleagues not only put out a fantastic magazine and Web site and all the rest, but also that we are smart enough about what we are doing.

Trump's rise is troubling not just on an American level but on an international level.