I'm reading a bunch of fiction by Afghan and Iraq War veterans for a New Yorker piece. There hasn't been that much, but it's starting to come out, and some of the fiction is really good.

We have all the information in the universe at our fingertips, while our most basic problems go unsolved year after year...All around, we see dazzling technological change, but no progress.

American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular.

You don`t have to be foreign policy expert to succeed as president, but you have to have ice water for blood.

Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

What goes on in a person's head, what impels them to a political choice, it's a pretty complicated question.

People in Congress are willing to shut down the entire government or to make it impossible for a Supreme Court nominee to get a hearing or for routine appointments in the executive branch to go unfilled for years because of a hold placed by a senator.