My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.

In some senses, I think it's almost deliberately anachronistic. There's a retro feel to the [Donald] Trump program.

Vaclav Havel was the most amazing man in terms of being the combination of somebody with massive moral authority, great courage for having espoused the concepts of democracy, freedom throughout a very difficult communist period, a very modest man, and somebody with a fabulous sense of humor and the idea of being able to see the absurd in situations.

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.

Almost all of us have wondered at one point or another about the taxes we pay: Where does the money go?

For the past 21 years, I've been privileged to be part of an amazing organization called the International Women's Media Foundation.

If you're using technology in a way that opens out conversation in your family, with your friends, with people you care about, I'm for that. But if you're using technology to silence the conversations with the people around you, then you have to create sacred spaces in your home, the kitchen, the dining room, the car.