Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.

Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering.

All of the leading terrorism experts are clear on one thing: that in terms of protecting America, we are almost never going to know a place or a time of an attack.

If you write something that gets a bad response, or someone commits candor or is off message, there are often consequences almost immediately when it appears in the paper or a magazine, that somebody gets called into the boss's office. And sometimes it can result in a loss of access for the reporter.

Wars tend to be very public things, they are visible. There are correspondents traveling with the troops and you get daily dispatches.

[Barack Obama] says that he thinks America felt better, more confident, because Washington was not simply in a gridlock, in stasis, where nothing was being done. And he talks about that as a positive.

The fact is, I can vote for anybody; independents, Republicans, Democrats. But I'm a registered Democrat in the District of Columbia.