In Europe, populism is sort of a dirty word, but we have this wonderful history of populism in America, including the abolitionist populists and the white and black populists working together in the nineteenth century.

In Europe, populism is sort of a dirty word, but we have this wonderful history of populism in America, including the abolitionist populists and the white and black populists working together in the nineteenth century.

I tend to be a kind of left federalist. There's a value to more power of certain kinds being positioned at a more local level.

It's a lot harder to push forward things, like energy policy. There's a big dream out there about wind and solar power.

What happens in New York affects national policy in very significant ways.

I think about people and events in terms of archetypes a lot.

I feel much more comfortable in politics than I did in book writing. Book writing is so hard. Politics felt easy compared to that.