I know it's cheaper to fund an op-ed columnist than a team of reporters, but I think it confuses the mission of what these great journalistic brands are about.

I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.

Plenty of pundits have really high IQs, but they don't have any discipline in how they look at the world, and so it leads to a lot of bullshit, basically.

I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.

People have different ways of interpreting history.

We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things—and we aren’t very good at it.

Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.