I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.

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

100% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying.100

The Democratic vote consists of minorities and educated whites.

Maybe Santa Claus is real. Here's the problem: reality.

Democratic institutions, even in the oldest operating democracy in the world, are anything but perfect.

I don't want to romanticize the world in which everybody watched three networks and the Washington Post and the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal were incredibly dominant. That time has passed.