The Europeans have fallen away from religion and the church while the rest of the world is seemingly more religious. I don't know how to explain it.

My feeling is that a newspaper should serve its readers and it just seems to me that given what is going in the world, people are hungry for something.

Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.

I never know what I'm going to do for the Post next. Two weeks ago I had a piece on Homeland Security. This is one of my pig ongoing projects. How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack.

Europe is endearingly old fashioned in its secularism.

How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack.

Social climbing and power climbing -- the two are often synonymous -- are what make Washington run. ... If there are more than two people together, if there are three, one of them is climbing.