The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.

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

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

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

The notion that somehow through a trade war or protectionism or magical thinking that we're going to return to a romanticized economic past is, in the end, going to be an illusion. And a severe disappointment to millions of decent, hard-working people.

I would like to see Russia not invade Ukraine or put pressure on and threaten Baltic states. But we live in the real and existing world.

A huge constituency, such as Hispanics, is not 100 percent Democratic.