I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean

I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting

I think that big, sort of theatrical relaunches tend to set you up for failure and hype.

I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print

What's interesting about the Taliban, is they're more afraid of educating girls than they are of drones. One educated girl is more scary to the Taliban than a drone.

Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don't know about. If you can afford to send yourself to some foreign part, I still think that's by far the best way to break in

Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments