Vladimir Putin wants to become the de facto head of an illiberal, xenophobic, hypernationalist trend in world politics.

We can hope that the responsibilities and realities will weigh on Donald Trump and he will not be the president we fear, but rather something more stable.

Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving.

As journalists, we need to find every avenue to distribute our work, and try to be so good that we become increasingly more influential than before.

The Democratic vote consists of minorities and educated whites.

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.

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