I think that liberals need to grow up.

The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, lets be honest.

Media reporters have pointed out that the paragraphs in my Time column this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's essay in the April 22nd issue of The New Yorker. They are right. I made a terrible mistake. It is a serious lapse and one that is entirely my fault. I apologize unreservedly to her, to my editors at Time, and to my readers.

Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to sit outside the global order.

The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.

You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.