And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of the most important moments in modern American political life.

I think even Republicans are saying [Andrew] Puzder may have a problem.

That is certainly the promise of [Donald Trump] campaign and the promise of his economic program.This economic program is really the pickup truck of economic programs. It's the Ford F-150 of economic programs. It's about manufacturing. It's about oil, fossil fuels. It's a deliberate, forceful reassertion of an image of American industrialism that we have inherited from the 20th century.

United States military involvement in Syria has deepened since President Trump took office.

Some days you feel like you've had the greatest ego massage, then the next day you've been trampled on.

My mother was adored by her family and by the scores of children she took care of and their parents, all of whom called her 'Miss Woody.

The heyday perhaps of American public infrastructure is the Sputnik moment of the 1950s, the [Dwaight] Eisenhower administration, for instance, which rolls out the modern interstate system. The highway system of the United States is built during this period.