Trump's election is part of an international trend that's no less alarming, in Britain, in France, in Germany, in Austria. Vladimir Putin wanted to see this outcome no less than he would like to see nationalists and anti-Europeanists win in France.

I think the Electoral College is an absurd 18th-century construct. But that is the law.

I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.

A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.

You are losing out because Mexican rapists are taking your job.

Disaster can take a nation by surprise, slowly, and then all at once.

Donald Trump lies with astonishing frequency and in stunning volume.