What I object to is tricking the reader and blurring the lines so that unsuspecting readers, thinking that they are getting something that is assigned and edited by the editorial side, are getting something quite different. They are getting an advertisement.

We should put pressure on power and write the truth and write relentlessly and fearlessly. That's the job.

I live in a country where, at least by my sense of arithmetic and justice, Al Gore should have been president, not George W. Bush. To this day, John Kerry probably thinks he won Ohio in 2004 because he had suspicions about the vote in Ohio. And, by the way, Richard Nixon had suspicions in 1960 about the vote in Chicago when he lost to JFK.

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.

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

I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate.

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