You are losing because blacks are getting their civil rights in the cities.

I've never encountered someone in public life who has less desire to hold office than Michelle Obama, though she is incredibly gifted at retail politics.

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

Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.

The internet is very democratizing in some ways, but it also has other effects.

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.

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