The greatest thing that prepared me for editing Vanity Fair was having four kids because you just learn to subjugate your ego with the greater interest in mind.

As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals.

Television has the obvious benefits of regularity and intimacy.

Branding experts believe that just because they have rethought a company's image or name, the rest of us will automatically fall in line.

The fact is, unlike a lot of writers, I credit the people who help me. A lot of writers out there have a ton of researchers and they don't get credited in the book.

People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.

In 2004, I wrote 'What We've Lost,' a book about the Bush administration. It sold only reasonably well, in part, I think, because the book was a horrific downer, an unrelenting account of the administration's actions, bungles, deceptions, half-truths, untruths, and downright corruptions.