Prediction is a low form of journalism.

We begin to inhabit oppositional and rarely intersecting mental universes having to do with ideology and fact and non-fact and news and non-news.

Speaking to the subject is the most overrated thing in journalism.

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

You have to understand that a lot of the working class is not white.

Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time.

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.