An editorial writer might consult a reporter to see what she thinks, if it is what she covers. But they are entirely independent.

When my daughter was a senior in high school, I remember noticing, almost in passing, that her friends were very cute. Which made me realize her friends' fathers probably found Molly very cute.

Ever since roughly 1890, when snot poets first decided that rhyme was confining and unnecessary, every idiot with a pen fancied hisself a poet. The mere act of rhyming was suddenly regarded as a quaint, mannered, and uncool atavism, consigning doggerelists like me to the trash bin of literary history.

America is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.

The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right.

The Jewish women like Bethany Mandel fare the worst, because they are getting both antisemitic stuff and anti-woman stuff.

When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.