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

I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since.

Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.

Mobile is great for us. I think, even though the size of the screen doesn't give everything The New Yorker has to offer, people are spending a lot of time reading - and reading seriously - on the phone.

I use social media every day. I don't have a Twitter account, but not because I'm a dinosaur about it. I have enough of a platform here. People in my position who do it tend to use it in a promotional way or in a hamstrung way. I look at Twitter all the time as a news tool or for cultural conversation. I've used it in my reporting. It's very useful.

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

I don't know that Donald Trump is anything more to Putin than what Lenin called a poleznye durak, a useful idiot.